Question

Sarah described the following situation:

When one patient with a common cold takes a medicine and the other patient does not take any medicine, the person who takes medicine recovers fas
than the person who does not take medicine.
Which of the following best describes the situation?
A) This is an example of both correlation and causation.
B) This is an example of neither correlation nor causation.
C) This is an example of correlation.
D) This is an example of causation.

Answer 1

D) Causation

Explanation:

Taking medicine appears to enable the patient to recover faster. Clearly a causation situation since taking medicine causes faster recovery; not taking medicine slows recovery

There is no correlation between the two patients