Question

Shamar has decided to study whether early childhood poverty causes lower well-being in adulthood. When he finds evidence supporting the hypothesized relationship, a colleague suggests that before he makes a causal claim, he needs to consider factors that came after early childhood and before adulthood. The colleague is making sure the researcher is meeting which condition of causal inferences?

Answer 1

Answer:

The colleague is making sure the researcher is meeting which condition of causal inferences?

Other explanations for the association between the independent and dependent variables must be ruled out.

Explanation:

Shamar seems to have found a connection between early childhood poverty and lower well-being in adulthood. However, it would be a mistake for him to not consider other explanations for such an association between the variables. As his colleague pointed out, it is important to rule out other possible reasons that may lead to the same result. There is a time in those subjects' lives - after the childhood and before the adulthood - where factors may occur that may very well influence those people's well-being.