Why Do Vitamins Cause Crime

These days many researchers are trying to figure out why things cause other things. These are called correlation studies. The process in seeing how things relate to each other and affect one another. Yet many correlations are false. It is not a valid way of proving a point. Many correlations have nothing to do with each other. In this study researchers decided that since vitamins are related to crime they cause it. Vitamins do not cause crimes it is a illusory correlation. There is no proof that vitamins cause crime. This is a very hard statistic to prove because many studies could come out with different incomes depending on the test subjects used in each study. For example a lot of the people used for this study might already be criminals and even if you do background checks they might have been people thinking about committing a crime. This is an example of correlation vs. causation. The researchers are …show more content…
We would get a variety of participants, young, old, different races, genders, etc. and randomly assign them to either the control or experimental group. The tack of the random assignment would all be done by a person who was not participating in the study, in order to not bias in study. The person who was not part of the study would hand out vitamins to every participant. Some of these would be fake vitamins and some would be real, but they would all look the same. The researcher would have no idea which one was real and which one was fake. The researcher would then leave the room and accidentally drop his wallet with a bunch of cash. All the participant were told that there were no cameras in the building. But the researcher would leave and observe who took the wallet and who gave it to him when he walked into the room. After some time the researcher would look at who had taken real vitamins and who had taken fake ones and see if more people who had real vitamins stole the