Multiple Choice
Which statement is TRUE about people's ability to detect correlation?
A) Research by Smedsland (1977) showed that people are quite good at detecting correlation.
B) People do not pay enough attention to data in cell "a" of fourfold tables that show co-occurrences.
C) People show illusory correlation in estimating associations in research data but not in everyday situations.
D) People often find associations between variables in random data when no relationship is present.
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