A Sociologist Finds a Strong Relationship Between Education and Income

question 60

Multiple Choice

A sociologist finds a strong relationship between education and income.If he only assumes that the amount of education people receive directly causes them to earn a certain income,and not that a family's income can determine educational attainment,he is forgetting to consider:

• A) luck.
• B) reverse causality.
• C) correlation.
• D) deduction.

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