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Question: Find claims about research findings on any human topic (e.g., health, academic achievement, romance, income) in a newspaper or magazine. Answer the following questions using the article you choose: NOTE: Please properly cite the newspaper or magazine article in your post, please! Providing a link to it is also a good idea.
1) What research design was used?
2) Does the article inappropriately assume causation? To further solidify your understanding that correlation and causation are different, and that correlation does NOT equal causation, I encourage you to spend some time exploring Spurious Correlations, which are correlations between 2 things that have absolutely no relation to each other. This helps illustrate that correlation is not always causal, and that sometimes it is just a mathematical connection between two things. The media regularly assumes correlation equals causation, even though spurious correlations demonstrate that this is untrue.
3) What are some different explanations for the finding? Post your answer to the 3 questions as a new topic in the forum. THEN: Thoughtfully respond to ONE (1) Peer, making connections to course learnings about research methodology and literacy, by Nov 15th at 11:59 PM Rubric for