A psychologist visiting a classroom concludes that one of the children is depressed because the child is quiet and unresponsive. Actually, the child has the flu. The psychologist has made what error?
a. failure to distinguish correlation from causation
b. failure to distinguish inference from observation
c. failure to use experimental controls
d. failure to obtain a representative sample
b
Psychology
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