Someone notices that sunspot activity is high just prior to recessions and concludes that sunspots cause recessions. This person has
A) confused association and causation.
B) misunderstood the ceteris paribus assumption.
C) used normative economics to answer a positive question.
D) built an untestable model.

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The person has confused association with causation, assuming that because sunspot activity and recessions occur together, one causes the other, without evidence of a causal link.

Someone Notices That Sunspot Activity Is High Just Prior to Recessions