You Study 100 Children for a Month,measuring How Much TV

question 126

Multiple Choice

You study 100 children for a month,measuring how much TV they watch and how many aggressive acts they perform.You find that TV watching and aggression are highly and positively correlated.Based on this study,you can:

• A) conclude that watching TV caused children to behave more aggressively.
• B) conclude that an aggressive personality causes children to watch more TV.
• C) conclude that TV watching and aggression are causally related,although you can't tell which causes which.
• D) NOT draw any causal conclusions about the relation between TV watching and aggression.

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Definitions:

Resource Demand

The demand for inputs necessary for the production of goods and services.

MRP

MRP, or Marginal Revenue Product, quantifies the added value generated by employing an additional unit of input in the production process.

Haircut

A reduction applied to the value of an asset for purposes of calculating capital requirements, margining, or risk assessment.

Marginal Revenue Product

The extra income produced by employing an additional unit of a production resource.