Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1 A positive correlation between smoking and mental illness is evidenced by the fact that people who smoke are more likely to have a mental illness
2 Cause and effect cannot be demonstrated by observing natural correlations
3 When a correlation is observed between two variables, it is possible that one variable is causing the other
4 The matched samples technique attempts to eliminate the third-variable problem by holding it constant for each participant
5 Matched samples effectively rule out specific third-variable correlations, but matched pairs do not


1 True
2 True
3 True
4 True
5 False

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