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Business, 25.09.2020 02:01 sophiaa23

Your friend read that in the last 10 years, whenever the amount of chicken consumed per person increases, the amount of oil the U. S. imports increases, and whenever chicken consumption per person decreases, U. S. oil imports decreases. Your friend sees that oil imports are now decreasing and tells you that chicken consumption per person must be decreasing as well. In which of the following pitfalls of analysis is your friend most likely falling?a) Pitfall of Composition (what is true for an individual is true for the group)b) Correlation implies causationc) Pitfall of ignoring secondary effects

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