A Researcher Finds That Height and Intelligence Are Correlated in Children

question 31

Multiple Choice

A researcher finds that height and intelligence are correlated in children. The age of the child is probably which of the following?

• A) A mediating variable
• B) An extraneous variable
• C) A common-causal variable
• D) An outcome variable

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