Which of the Following Statements Is True? Eating Ice Cream

question 12

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true? Eating ice cream and rates of rape in an area are:

• A) statistically correlated but not causally related
• B) causally related but not statistically correlated
• C) both statistically correlated and causally related
• D) neither statistically correlated nor causally related
• E) none of the above

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Definitions:

Earth's Rotation

The spinning of the Earth on its axis, which takes approximately 24 hours to complete, resulting in day and night.

Organisms

Any living biological entities, such as plants, animals, fungi, or microorganisms.

Internal Desynchronization

A state in which biological rhythms are not in phase with one another.

Time Zones

Regions of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time, usually differing from neighboring regions by an exact number of hours.