Question

Jake has found a correlation between the amount of time he spends exercising every day and the number of hours he sleeps at night. The more he exercises, the longer he sleeps. However, his psychology instructor explained to him that correlation does not mean causation. This means that ___________.

Answer 1

Answer:

This means that by itself, the correlation doesn't say if more exercise causes longer sleep.

Explanation:

Jake has found a correlation in between the sleeping hours at night and the number of the time one spends on the exercising. He observe that longer he he spend exercising the more hours he spend in sleeping in night, however there is no scientific evidence that is explained by his psychology instructor that there is no cause and effect mean to this correlation.

Thus, the correct answer is : by itself, the correlation doesn't say if more exercise causes longer sleep.