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skymedlock

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If a high positive correlation was found between the number of churches in a city and the number of murders, the most likely explanation would be that:
 
  a. more churches are needed in a city with a lot of murders.
  b. increasing the number of churches in a city will also increase the number of criminals.
  c. the number of churches and the number of murders in a city are both being influenced by a third unspecified variable.
  d. criminals prefer to live in places where there are a lot of churches.

Question 2

Although they cannot indicate causality, correlation studies can:
 
  a. lead to hypotheses that can be tested with experiments.
  b. rule out the possibility of causality.
  c. allow predictions to be made about the relationship of variables.
  d. all of these


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Koolkid240

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

D


skymedlock

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Excellent

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