A Student Football Team Manager Examined Variables Influencing the Team's

question 166

Multiple Choice

A student football team manager examined variables influencing the team's record and concluded that the best scores resulted when the "third-string" team played the most minutes. Therefore he recommended that the third-string team become the first team. Why is this conclusion probably erroneous?

• A) He failed to recognize that correlation is not causation.
• B) He did not review the entire game strategy carefully enough.
• C) He committed the fallacy of composition.
• D) He confused positive and normative analysis.

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