To Avoid Spurious Correlation,one Must Recognize That

question 103

Multiple Choice

To avoid spurious correlation,one must recognize that

• A) what is true for a part must also be true for the whole.
• B) what is true for a part is not necessarily true for the whole.
• C) because one event precedes another,the first event necessarily caused the second.
• D) because one event precedes another,the first event did not necessarily cause the second.
• E) correlation implies causation.

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