Tatiana observes that all of her friends who have more than five tattoos also have more than five body piercings, and concludes that getting multiple tattoos makes people also get multiple piercings. Tatiana is

A. correct in her analysis.
B. describing regression discontinuity.
C. confusing correlation and causation.
D. describing difference-in-differences.


Answer: C

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