Bethany notices that whenever she receives a text message, her roommate Stella is playing her tuba. She concludes that Stella's tuba playing is causing her to receive text messages. Bethany is
A. likely correct that there is causation, but the causation is more likely running in the opposite direction in that the text messages are causing Stella to play the tuba.
B. probably misguided in that there is no apparent correlation or causation in this situation.
C. very probably correct in her conclusion that the tuba playing causes her to receive text messages.
D. definitely confusing correlation with causation.
Answer: B
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