Which of the Following Students Has the Best Explanation for Illusory

question 35

Multiple Choice

Which of the following students has the best explanation for illusory correlations?

• A) Tim: "Illusory correlations arise when people focus their attention on only one set of characteristics, and they do not consider the other sets of characteristics."
• B) Joanne: "Illusory correlations are based on the inappropriate use of confidence intervals."
• C) Sophie: "Illusory correlations resemble the conjunction fallacy, in which we believe that two psychological characteristics or categories are related to each other."
• D) Ingo: "Actually, a recent meta-analysis showed that-ironically-illusory correlations are illusory."

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Random Sample

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T-statistic

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