When you want to see if those two sets of numbers are related. A group of college students were given two surveys. First, they answered a series of questions about cheating. In the end, subjects get a cheating score which runs from 0-50.
High score indicate high levels of cheating behavior.
Second, they answered a series of questions about morality. In the end, subjects get a moral reasoning score, which runs from 0-50. High scores indicate high levels of postconventional moral reasoning. A correlation data file is very simple. There should be two columns representing the two continuous variables.