options: Make inferences and justify conclusions from sample surveys, experiments, and observational studies.

Understand independence and conditional probability and use them to interpret data.

Use the rules of probability to compute probabilities of compound events in a uniform probability model.

Summarize and describe distributions.

Interpret linear models.

Calculate expected values and use them to solve problems.

Understand and evaluate random processes underlying statistical experiments.

Investigate chance processes and develop, use, and evaluate probability models.

Use random sampling to draw inferences about a population.

Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables.

Develop understanding of statistical variability.

Summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable.

Draw informal comparative inferences about two populations.

Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data.

Use probability to evaluate outcomes of decisions.
problem_activity: Task
Researchers have noticed that the number of golf courses and the number of divorcees in the United States are strongly correlated and both have been increasing over the last several decades.  Can you conclude that the increasing number of golf courses is causing the number of divorcees to increase?
Either justify why a causation can be inferred, or explain what might account for the correlation other than a causal relation.


correct_option_index: 4