Imagine that you are interested in studying the working habits of young adults. You hypothesize that persons first married in their twenties tend to work an average of 5 hours more per week than persons not first married in their twenties. You find a link between age at first marriage and hours worked per week. What three conditions must be satisfied in order for you to have established a causal connection?
What will be an ideal response?
The cause has to precede the effect in time, there has to be an empirical relationship between the cause and the effect, and this relationship cannot be explained by other factors
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