2. Television is a refuge for people who are already unhappy. TV is not judgmental nor difficult, so people with few social skills or resources for other activities can engage in it. Furthermore, chronic unhappiness can be socially and personally debilitating and can interfere with work and most social and personal activities, but even the unhappiest people can click a remote and be passively entertained by a TV. In other words, the causal order is reversed for people who watch television; unhappiness leads to television viewing.

Using only data from this study, do you think it is possible to determine which of these two conclusions is correct? If so, which conclusion do you think is correct and why? If not, explain why it is not possible to decide which conclusion is correct based on the study data.