years? Explain.

d. The USA Today article also includes the following summary paragraph:

The study did not examine what the children watched and can’t show TV was the cause of later problems, but it does “tell parents that even if kids are watching TV early in life, and they stop, it could reduce the risk for behavioral and social problems later,” Mistry says.

What potentially confounding variable is identified in this passage?

e. The passage in Part

(d) says that the study cannot show that TV was the cause of later problems. Is the quote from Kamila Mistry (one of the study authors)

in the passage consistent with the statement about cause? Explain.