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The correct answer is D.
An increase in Lyme disease does not cause an increase in drowning. There may be a correlation between the two but there is no causation. The likely lurking variable that would cause an increase in Lyme disease would be temperature as people are more likely to venture out into the woods and for walks in long grass with their pets when the weather is nice and could contract the disease from the ticks in the woods and grasslands. The lurking variable that would cause an increase in drowning would be time of the year as once again when the weather is nice people go swimming which can lead to drowning if not careful.
A likely lurking variable between cases of Lyme disease and drowning deaths is that B. An increase in Lyme disease does not cause an increase in drowning deaths. The temperature and time of year are likely lurking variables.
- It should be noted that an increase in Lyme disease does not cause an increase in drowning. Rather, the lurking variable can be the time of the year and temperature.
- The lurking variable simply refers to the variable that can affect a study but which wasn't measured in the study. In this case, there's no correlation between Lyme disease and drowning.
In conclusion, the correct option is B.
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