Which Statement Is TRUE About People's Ability to Detect Correlation

question 27

Multiple Choice

Which statement is TRUE about people's ability to detect correlation?

• A) Research by Smedsland (1977) showed that people are quite good at detecting correlation.
• B) People do not pay enough attention to data in cell "a" of fourfold tables that show co-occurrences.
• C) People show illusory correlation in estimating associations in research data but not in everyday situations.
• D) People often find associations between variables in random data when no relationship is present.

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