Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The scientific method develops and tests theories about how observable facts or events are related in order to explain them.
2. Hypotheses are tentative statements about a relationship between facts or events that should be derived from the theory and should be testable.
3. A relationship that is likely to have occurred by chance is said to be significant.
4. Causation is a significant relationship wherein the presence of one variable (the dependent variable) causes changes in another variable (the independent variable).
5. A correlation is a significant statistical relationship found in data.


1.true
2.true
3.false
4.false
5.true

Sociology

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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