William Ward and Herbert Jenkins (1965)conducted a hypothetical 50-day cloud-seeding experiment.Participants were told on which of the 50 days the clouds had been seeded and on which days it rained.The results indicated that sometimes it rained after seeding and sometimes it did not.In spite of these random results,the participants were convinced that there existed a relationship between cloud seeding and rain.This experiment best illustrates

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The experiment best illustrates an illusory correlation, which refers to the perception of a relationship between two variables even when no such relationship exists. In this case, the random results of the cloud-seeding experiment led the participants to believe falsely that there was a relationship between the seeding and the rain. This illusion of correlation may have been fueled by the desire to see patterns in the data.

William Ward and Herbert Jenkins (1965)conducted a Hypothetical 50-Day Cloud-Seeding