As Consumption of Ice Cream Increases During the Year, So

question 806

Multiple Choice

As consumption of ice cream increases during the year, so does the number of aggravated assaults.A politician advocates that ice cream be banned so that the crime rate will go down.Besides needing to be voted out of office, this politician needs to understand

• A) the dangers of a single example.
• B) the difference between observation and inference.
• C) the difference between correlation and causation.
• D) that the Barnum effect occurs only in ten-year cycles.

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