Suppose that a study used self-reported consumption of potato chips and overall health index score from self-reported
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Suppose that a study used self-reported consumption of potato chips and overall health index score from self-reported health measures to estimate how potato-chip consumption affected health.
a. Why could there be reverse causality?
b. Why could there be omitted-factors bias from spurious correlation?
c. Why could there be bias from measurement error?
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