Sarah described the following situation:

When one patient with a common cold takes a medicine and the other patient does not take any medicine, the person who takes medicine recovers faster than the person who does not take medicine.

Which of the following best describes the situation?

This is an example of both correlation and causation.

This is an example of neither correlation nor causation.

This is an example of correlation.

This is an example of causation.

Question

Sarah described the following situation:

When one patient with a common cold takes a medicine and the other patient does not take any medicine, the person who takes medicine recovers faster than the person who does not take medicine.

Which of the following best describes the situation?

 This is an example of both correlation and causation.

 This is an example of neither correlation nor causation.

 This is an example of correlation.

 This is an example of causation.

anonymous · Answer

Two statements are shown below:


It is a cause and effect relationship between two events.
It is a statistical measure, expressed as a number, which describes the size and direction of a relationship between two or more variables.


Which of the following describes the statements?
 One defines correlation and two defines causation.

 One defines causation and two defines correlation.

 Both one and two define correlation.

 Both one and two define causation.