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 faster than the person who does not take medicine.
Which of the following best describes the situation?

This is an example of correlation because one patient is sick and the other is not.
This is an example of causation because both patients need medicine.
This is an example of correlation because both patients are sick at the same time.
This is an example of causation because the patient that took the medication recovered quicker than the patient that did not.

Answer 1

Option D.

Explanation:

D. This is an example of causation because the patient that took the medication recovered quicker than the patient that did not.

Answer 2

This is an example of causation because the patient that took the medication recovered quicker than the patient that did not.

Explanation:

Correlation is a statistical technique that shows that a relation exists between 2 variables but does not give any explanation about the relationship

Example: Correlation between Air Conditioner sales and sunglasses sold.

As the sales of the air conditioner is increasing so do the sales of sunglasses.

Causation is a statistical technique that shows a relation ship between 2 variable. It emphasizes the fact that any change in the value of one variable will cause a change in the value of another variable.