A business analyst uses data mining to establish a negative correlation between customer complaints and customer relations training hours for employees. She concludes increasing training will reduce customer complaints. What is a key weakness in this approach as stated?
A) Data demands are exceedingly high.
B) Deductive reasoning uses untestable assumptions.
C) Strength of inductive reasoning is unknown.
D) There is no use of inductive reasoning.

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The weakness in this approach is that the strength of the inductive reasoning used to establish the negative correlation is unknown. Therefore, it is possible that there may be other factors affecting the relationship between customer complaints and customer relations training hours that were not taken into account.

A Business Analyst Uses Data Mining to Establish a Negative