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You are watching a television news program and the reporter claims that researchers now know drinking coffee causes heart attacks because as coffee sales have increased in the last year, the number of heart attacks has also gone up. Should you put down that cup of coffee to save your life?
A) Not yet, this is only a correlation does not imply coffee causes heart attacks.
B) Yes, because the relationship between two variables can support causality.
C) Maybe, because a positive correlation is more valid than a negative correlation.
D) I would if I even drank coffee, but I prefer tea.
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Good timing, thanks!
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