A Researcher Finds That Self-Esteem Is Positively Correlated with Academic

A researcher finds that self-esteem is positively correlated with academic performance. What can the researcher conclude from these data about the causal relationship between these variables?

A) High self-esteem causes people to perform better academically.
B) People who perform better academically have higher self-esteem as a result.
C) High self-esteem and academic performance both have causal influence on each other.
D) It is impossible to conclude anything about the causal relationship between these variables based on these data.