Author Question: If you find a correlation between school grades and school attendance, you can conclude that: ... (Read 109 times)

mwit1967 · **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.

robbielu01 · **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.