Onsider the following three statements:

As children grow older, their weight increases.

As children grow older, they expand their vocabulary.

As children's weight increases, their vocabulary expands.

Does statement #3 describe a correlational relationship? A causal relationship? Explain your answer.

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Hailie Kerr

Mathematics

30 December, 07:15

Onsider the following three statements:

As children grow older, their weight increases.

As children grow older, they expand their vocabulary.

As children's weight increases, their vocabulary expands.

Does statement #3 describe a correlational relationship? A causal relationship? Explain your answer.

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Hensley · Answer 1

This would be a correlational relationship.

Correlational relationship means the occurances can occur at the same time ... they might be associated but one does not cause the other.

Casual relationship is basically a cause/effect relationship ... one event occurs because of the other.

Just because a childs weight increases, does not mean their vocabulary expands ... there are skinny people with great vocabulary. However, that does not mean that a " chubby " person cannot have good vocabulary.

Onsider the following three statements:As children grow older, their weight increases.As children grow older, they expand their vocabulary.As children's weight increases, their vocabulary expands.Does statement #3 describe a correlational relationship? A causal relationship? Explain your answer.