Under What Conditions Can an Experimenter Be Confident That X

question 44

Multiple Choice

Under what conditions can an experimenter be confident that X is the cause of Y if two variables,X and Y,are strongly correlated?

• A)if people are randomly assigned to levels of X in a true experiment
• B)if people are randomly assigned to levels of Y in a true experiment
• C)if X is measured before Y
• D)if Y is measured before X

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