Describe a research question where a spuriousness could serve as an explanation for the observed relationship between an independent and dependent variable.
What will be an ideal response?
One such example could be considered when examining the relationship between gang membership and crime. You could observe a relationship between gang membership and crime (gang members are more likely to commit crime), but this relationship could be explaned by the fact that gang members are more likely to have longer prior criminal histories than non-gang members (i.e., spuriousness).
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