Suppose you read a research paper that concludes that ice cream causes drowning. Knowing this is not a true fact, you look for a possible variable that the sociologists missed in their research process. Explain what happened and what a possible explanation is. How might issues of causation and correlation affect the interpretation of research findings?

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