Compare and contrast the concept of correlation versus causation.

There are 4 Questions.
Include each indicated part for each question.
Present your response for each part.
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Within responses where information from a source is included.
In a reference list at the end of the paper of all sources used for the responses.

Question 1

A. Compare and contrast the concept of correlation versus causation.

B. How are correlation and causation similar and how are they different?

Question 2

Read over the Press Release by APA, The problem with Being Pretty (Links to an external site.).

Read the article within the Press Release: Lee, M., Pitesa, M., Pillutla, M. M., & Thau, S. (2017, October 23). Perceived Entitlement Causes Discrimination Against Attractive Job Candidates in the Domain of Relatively Less Desirable Jobs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

A. Identify the theoretical foundations Lee and her colleagues utilized.

What were they looking to find out?
Indicate each hypothesis.
B. How did Lee and her colleagues address the hypotheses.

What was done for the studies?
What was the procedure?
C. What were the results of the studies?

D. Did the results across the four studies confirm or disconfirm the theory?

Explain
Question 3

A. As a consultant, how would you apply the results of the Lee et al. (2017) studies to help prepare job-seekers?

Be specific.
B. How might an HR Talent Acquisition staff member writing a job description apply the results from the Lee et. al. (2017) studies.

Be specific.
Question 4

Be the researcher and design a research study.

If you were given a $1-million-dollar grant to study this issue, briefly indicate how might you replicate and extend one of the studies conducted by Lee et. al. (2017) by answering the following questions:

For your study:

A. What would be studied?

B. Who would be the Sample Subjects?

C. What would be the Procedure?

D. What would be the Independent Variable(s)?

E. What would be the Dependent Variable(s)?

F. How would you address the limitations of the studies by Lee and her colleagues?

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