A Psychologist Notes an Association Between the IQs of Parents

question 49

Multiple Choice

A psychologist notes an association between the IQs of parents and their children, or between beauty and social popularity, or between anxiety and test performance. In each case, two events are correlated, which means

• A)both events are randomly occurring.
• B)both events are really unrelated.
• C)one event caused the other.
• D)the events are linked together in an orderly way.

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