Which of the following was the reason for the increase in the government's willingness to fight over the Biafra territory which led to the Biafran war?

A. The Ibo were organized into many relatively small city-states, with no centralized
political authority in the region.
B. In 1966, a group of mostly Ibo military officers seized power in a coup d'état.
C. The Ibo seceded from Nigeria and declared themselves the independent Republic of
Biafra.
D. The majority Ibo territory of Biafra in the southeast included the oil-rich region of
the Niger Delta.
E. Many Ibos were unable to reclaim pre-war jobs in the Nigerian government.

D

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A) He should stop the study right away and refuse to publish. B) It means that there is statistical independence. The variables do not covary. C) He has made a mistake in his data collection. D) It means that there is strong covariation.

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