Chapter 2 of the Text Discusses Tillie the Rainmaker,a Woman

question 169

Multiple Choice

Chapter 2 of the text discusses Tillie the Rainmaker,a woman who believes she has the power to cause rain in drought-stricken areas.According to your text,this belief was probably caused by

• A) a lack of random assignment.
• B) a tendency to infer causality from correlational events.
• C) the lack of precise operational definitions.
• D) a lack of random selection.
• E) such behaviours becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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