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...well may practice even more to improve their game further X <-> : This indicates that good players become good because they practice plenty, but also that they practice to stay on top of their game. Z „³ X, Y: Someone could also claim that your performance and your practice ethic are determined by how you were raised as a child (z) 3) a) The Y variable with the strongest association to X is Education, since it has the highest r2 value. This indicates that a higher percentage of the variance in Y is accounted for in X. The r2 value is significant since p<0.05. A possible causal model could be y „³ x because as you get higher education (Y), you have more opportunities to find a well-paying job, lowering poverty (X). b) The P value for homicide rate is greater than 0.05 indicating that the r2 is not significant. Therefore, we cannot determine what percentage of the variance in Y is accounted for by X. A possible causal model could be x <--> y, that being poor doesn¡¦t allow you to afford good lawyers, decreasing the likelihood that you¡¦d be proven innocent, as well as how being found guilt could decrease the likelihood that you¡¦d get a better paying job (leading to poverty). The P value for alcoholism is less than 0.05 indicating that the r2 value is significant, however, the r2 value doesn¡¦t account for a great amount of variance in education. One causal model for this situation could be z „³ x, y. If z represents the state of depression a person is in, it could be likely that they¡¦d perform less well at their job, or resort to drinking to relieve their depression. The P value for strength of social ties was greater than 0.05 indicating that the r2 value is not significant. One causal model could be z „³ x, y. That if Z represents depression (again), then the likelihood of seeking a well-paying job (x) would drop, as would the ability to get closer to people due to mental problems (y) 4) The independent variable of this experiment is the differen...