Causation and Association

Which example shows CAUSATION? (Which one CAUSED the other to happen.)

• High social media usage and reduced grades.

• Car ran out of gas and being stranded on the side of the road.

• Recess time and number of friends.

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Which example shows CAUSATION? (Which one CAUSED the other to happen.)

• Rainfall and time spent reading.

• Eating more butter and increased divorce rates.

• It started raining and the baseball game was delayed.

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Which example shows CAUSATION? (Which one CAUSED the other to happen.)

• Being happy and being a better student.

• An insect ate poison and it died.

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Which example shows CAUSATION?

• Taller people have larger shoe sizes and shorter people have smaller shoe sizes.

• If you exercise, the calories burned per minute increases.

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Which example shows ASSOCIATION? (The events show correlation, but one thing does NOT cause the other thing to happen.)

• I put water in the freezer and now I have ice.

• The alarm clock went off and I woke up.

• Temperature and the amount of people at the beach.

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Which example shows an ASSOCIATION? (The events show correlation, but one thing does NOT cause the other thing to happen.)

• It rained and the ground is wet.

• Ice cream sales increase as temperature increases.

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A study showed a positive relationship between students owning a cell phone and driving a car to school. Is this association or causation?

• Association

• Causation

• Neither

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A survey showed that sleeping with a night light was positively associated with nearsightedness. Is this association or causation?

• Association

• Causation

• Neither

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Sam's mom claims the number of hours spent playing video games bring down his grades so he should stop playing video games. Is this association or causation?

• Association

• Causation

• Neither

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A study showed a positive relationship to the sound level of listening to music and hearing loss. Is this association or causation?

• Association

• Causation

• Neither

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