The Correlation Between Smoking and Lung Cancer Shows That

question 57

Multiple Choice

The correlation between smoking and lung cancer shows that:

• A) correlations may, in fact, give clues to real causes
• B) there is no way of determining whether smoking causes lung cancer
• C) smoking does not cause lung cancer
• D) even strong correlations can be misleading

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