Edexcel A-Level Psychology AS 3.2.3 Correlation Issues Topic Practice

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Sacha carried out correlational research. He investigated whether there was a relationship between the number of hours sleep a person had per week and the number of hours they spent doing homework per week.
He found a negative correlation.
Sacha's results are shown in Table 1.

Table 1

Table 1

Explain one reason why cause and effect is an issue in correlational research.

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