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mwit1967

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on: Jun 22, 2018
If you find a correlation between school grades and school attendance, you can conclude that:
 
  high attendance and high grades tend to occur together.
  high attendance causes high grades.
  smart children often miss school.
  smart children enjoy school.

Question 2

What is one of the reasons that correlations do NOT indicate causation?
 
  Not applicable. Correlations do indicate causation if the correlation is a perfect
  1.0 or +1.0.
  There could be a third variable not being taken into account that can interact
  with the other variables being examined.
  Correlations are unexpected.
  Social scientists do not know why correlations do not indicate causation.


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robbielu01

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

high attendance and high grades tend to occur together.

Answer to Question 2

There could be a third variable not being taken into account that can interact
with the other variables being examined.


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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Excellent

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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