Much has been written about the relationship between students’ SAT test scores a

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Much has been written about the relationship between students’ SAT test scores and their family’s income. Generally speaking, there is a strong positive correlation between income and SAT scores. Consider and discuss the following questions as you respond:

What does this correlation tell you?

Is this correlation evidence that having a high family income causes one to have high SAT scores?

Is this correlation evidence that high SAT scores are a cause of higher income? Or, does this tell you something else? Explain your answer.

Explain why correlation alone is rarely sufficient to demonstrate cause.

Explanation / Answer

The correlation tells that if the family income increases then the SAT score also increases.

The correlation suggests that as the value of the dependnt variable increases value of the independent variable increases too.

So, high income (x) causes one to have high SAT scores (y).

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