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A researcher wants to know if excessive social media use causes academic problems. She
surveys 1000 high school students and asks them how many hours per day, on average, they use
various social media applications. She then matches this information to their high school GPA.
She finds a negative correlation with high social media use associated with lower GPAs.
Is this a good or bad design for making a causal conclusion, i.e., the conclusion that independent
variable causes the dependent variable?

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