b. Randomly selected individuals, some sick and some healthy, are chosen to receive a treatment. The measured variables are not necessarily 100% correlated and they appear to improve after the treatment is administered. This improvement is interpreted as being due to the treatment.

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Which is a regression fallacy?

a. Randomly selected individuals, some sick and some healthy, are chosen to receive a treatment. The measured variables are 100% correlated and they appear to improve after the treatment is administered

b. Randomly selected individuals, some sick and some healthy, are chosen to receive a treatment. The measured variables are not necessarily 100% correlated and they appear to improve after the treatment is administered. This improvement is interpreted as being due to the treatment.

c. Only sick individuals (no healthy individuals are chosen) are given a treatment. The measured variables are not 100% correlated and the measured variables appear to improve after a treatment is administered. This improvement is interpreted as being due to the treatment.

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