(Last Word) If Variables X and Y Are Positively Correlated

question 322

Multiple Choice

(Last Word) If variables X and Y are positively correlated, this means that

• A) X is the cause of Y.
• B) Y is the cause of X.
• C) causation necessarily exists, but we don't know whether X or Y is the cause.
• D) causation may or may not exist between X and Y.

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