As consumption of ice cream increases during the year, so does the number of aggravated assaults.A politician advocates that ice cream be banned so that the crime rate will go down.Besides needing to be voted out of office, this politician needs to understand
A) the dangers of a single example.
B) the difference between observation and inference.
C) the difference between correlation and causation.
D) that the Barnum effect occurs only in ten-year cycles.

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The politician needs to understand the difference between correlation and causation. Just because two things are correlated, it does not necessarily mean that one causes the other. There could be other factors at play that contribute to both phenomena. Banning ice cream to reduce crime rates would not be an effective solution based on this correlation.

As Consumption of Ice Cream Increases During the Year, So