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Which of the Following Students Has the Best Explanation for Illusory

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Which of the following students has the best explanation for illusory correlations?


A) Tim: "Illusory correlations arise when people focus their attention on only one set of characteristics,and they do not consider the other sets of characteristics."
B) Joanne: "Illusory correlations are based on the inappropriate use of confidence intervals."
C) Sophie: "Illusory correlations resemble the conjunction fallacy,in which we believe that two psychological characteristics or categories are related to each other."
D) Ingo: "Actually,a recent meta-analysis showed that-ironically-illusory correlations are illusory."

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