The Illusion That Uncontrollable Events Are Correlated with Our Actions

question 64

Multiple Choice

The illusion that uncontrollable events are correlated with our actions is facilitated by a phenomenon known as

• A) regression toward the mean.
• B) the correlation coefficient.
• C) the central tendency.
• D) the standard deviation.

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