What Does the Third-Variable Problem Indicate

question 110

Multiple Choice

What does the third-variable problem indicate?

• A)The three variables are all causally related to one another;each is a cause of the others.
• B)The correlation between any two of the variables must be established before another correlation can be computed.
• C)Two of the variables are correlated with each other only because each is causally related to a third variable.
• D)Changes in one variable are producing changes in another variable.

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