You find a correlation between race and number of arrests.What are the possible confounds of this finding?

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All of the listed factors (income, location, and level of unemployment) could potentially be confounds of the correlation between race and number of arrests. They are all known to be associated with race and could also influence the likelihood of being arrested, so it would be important to control for them in any analysis of this relationship.

You Find a Correlation Between Race and Number of Arrests