Which of the following is true of correlation and causation?
A. Causation is a measure of association that does not establish a cause-effect relationship.
B. In the context of political science, research identifying causation is easier to conduct than correlational research.
C. The fact that attributes and outcomes are correlated automatically serves as evidence of causation.
D. Causation is defined as a measure of observed association between two variables.
E. Correlation, by itself, does not imply the existence of a causal relationship.
E
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