Research Investigating Media "Effects" on Adolescent Development Has a Hard

question 86

Multiple Choice

Research investigating media "effects" on adolescent development has a hard time ruling out the possibility of spurious causation, which means that

• A) two things can go hand in hand.
• B) the second thing is actually causing the first thing (not the reverse).
• C) there is no statistically significant relation.
• D) the correlation between two things is due to the fact that each of them is correlated with a third factor.

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