Ravi Notices That All of His Neighbors Who Own Cats

question 15

Multiple Choice

Ravi notices that all of his neighbors who own cats are also divorced, and concludes that cat ownership must result in divorce. Ravi is

• A) correct in his analysis.
• B) confusing correlation and causation.
• C) describing difference-in-differences.
• D) describing regression discontinuity.

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Definitions:

Critical Path

The longest sequence of dependent tasks in a project, determining the shortest possible duration to complete the project.

Variance

A statistical measurement of the dispersion or spread in a set of data points, reflecting how much the numbers differ from each other and from the mean.

Probability

The measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, quantified as a number between 0 and 1, with 1 indicating certainty.