Before Jonas Salk discovered a vaccine to prevent polio, people noticed a correlation between outside temperature and the incidence of polio: The warmer the temperature over the course of the year, the more outbreaks of polio

This relationship is an example of a(n) ________ correlation.

a. negative
b. positive
c. spurious
d. illusory

Answer: B

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