Abelson's First Law of Statistics Is

question 11

Multiple Choice

Abelson's first law of statistics is

• A)correlation never implies causation
• B)correlation sometimes implies causation
• C)chance is lumpy
• D)if something is too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true

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