Many People Have Heard That the Stock Market Rises When

question 74

Multiple Choice

Many people have heard that the stock market rises when a team from the National Football Conference (NFC) wins the Super Bowl, and falls when a team from the American Football Conference (AFC) is victorious.If you conclude that there is a causal relationship between the outcome of the Super Bowl and stock prices, you probably are:

• A)confusing correlation with causation.
• B)violating the ceteris paribus assumption.
• C)committing the fallacy of composition.
• D)confusing the direction of causality, since everyone knows that stock prices determine which team wins the Super Bowl.

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