Question

An article headline claimed that "Drugs Cause Homelessness" due to a positive relationship found between homeless populations and drug use. Educated psychologists thought this might be flawed, because they thought unemployment was influencing both drug use and homelessness. This is an example of:_______
a. placebo effect.
b. canonical correlation.
c. experimenter expectations.
d. participant demand.
e. a third variable problem

Answer 1

Answer: e. A third variable problem.

Explanation:

A third variable influences both dependent and independent variable. The dependent and independent variable here are drug and homelessness but unemployment affects or influences drug and homelessness, it's seen as the third variable in this scenario.