Multiple Choice
Chapter 2 of the text discusses Tillie the Rainmaker,a woman who believes she has the power to cause rain in drought-stricken areas.According to your text,this belief was probably caused by
A) a lack of random assignment.
B) a tendency to infer causality from correlational events.
C) the lack of precise operational definitions.
D) a lack of random selection.
E) such behaviours becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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