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A study of employees at a large company found a negative correlation between weight and distance walked on the average day. In other words people who walked more weighed less. Would you conclude that walking causes lower weight? Can you think of an alternate explanation for the finding?

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Solution explains other alternative explainations of correlation for weight and walking time.

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An alternative explanation could be that people who weight less love to walk more. So people who have more weight does not like to walk and ...

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