On a radio show, an official reported that people who have more children get divorced less often. Because of this, the official argued that people should have more kids to help strengthen theirmarriage.

A. Name three possible causal statements you could make about this bivariate correlation.

B. Name one possible third variable that might account for this correlation.

C. Design a regression study that will test whether this third variable accounts for the correlation between number of children and divorce.

1.What are the independent and dependent variables in your model?

2.There are at least two possible results (when controlling for thethird variable, the number of children no longer predicts divorce, orwhen controlling for the third variable, the number of children still predicts divorce). Draw each one, using circles to represent each variable.

3.Estimate some betas that you would expect to find if each of the two patterns turns out to be the case.

4.Write a sentence that represents each of the three possible results using the words "controlling for."