A Student Football Team Manager Examined Variables Influencing the Team's

Multiple Choice

A student football team manager examined variables influencing the team's record and concluded that the best scores resulted when the "third-string" team played the most minutes. Therefore he recommended that the third-string team become the first team. Why is this conclusion probably erroneous?

A) He failed to recognize that correlation is not causation.
B) He did not review the entire game strategy carefully enough.
C) He committed the fallacy of composition.
D) He confused positive and normative analysis.