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What will be an ideal response?
Causation requires correlation, temporal priority, and no spurious correlation.
(1 ) Correlation means that two variables are present together. The more often they are found together, the stronger the relationship.
(2 ) Temporal priority means that one thing happens before something else does. For an independent variable to be the cause, it must precede the change.
(3 ) Spurious correlation means that the cause may be some underlying third variable not identified in the study, so a spurious correlation should not be evident.
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