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Daniel conducts a study looking at the relationship between exercise and depression and finds there is a negative correlation. Daniel concludes that exercise causes people to become less depressed.
 
  However, a colleague points out the possibility that less depressed people may simply be more likely to exercise. This represents a problem in interpreting correlations best known as ____________.
  a. The problem of direction
  b. The third variable problem
  c. Experimenter bias
  d. Confounding
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