How Do College Admissions Officers Use Correlations

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Essay

How do college admissions officers use correlations?

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Definitions:

Cognitive Tasks

Tasks that require mental processes such as perception, memory, problem solving, and decision-making.

Intelligence

All-purpose ability to do well on cognitive tasks, to solve problems, and to learn from experience.

Genetics

The branch of biology that studies heredity and the variations in organisms caused by the transmission of genetic material from parents to offspring.

Illusory Correlation

This is the cognitive phenomenon of perceiving a relationship between variables (typically people, events, or behaviors) even when no such relationship exists.