A study reports three findings: neighborhoods that are very poor (X) have higher

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A study reports three findings: neighborhoods that are very poor (X) have higher crime rates (Y). neighborhoods that have very young populations (Z) have higher crime rates (Y). neighborhoods that have both high rates of poverty and very young populations (Z) have extremely high crime rates (Y). (But in neighborhoods with high poverty and older populations, the rime rates are not as high as in areas with lots of young people.) Which of the following best describes the relationships between X, Y, and Z? Spurious Direct Conditional/moderating Intervening/mediating

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In this case the relationship between the variables is conditinal and moderating, because when z is large there is strong positive correlation between x and y but when z is small there is no relationship between x and y .

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