Data sleuth Tyler Vigen found a correlation between the number of noncommercial space launches that occur worldwide and the number of sociology doctorates awarded in the United States. This most likely represents a(n) _____ correlation.

A. specious
B. causal
C. spurious
D. accretive


Answer: C

Sociology

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