In their study, Anderson and Dill found that the physical aggression score was positively correlated with the amount of recently recorded video gameplaying time. Based on these results, we know that
A) having an aggressive personality leads to spending more time playing violent video games.
B) a third variable contributes to both physical aggression and continued violent video game play.
C) playing violent video games leads to more physical aggression.
D) both relationships are possible: An aggressive personality may lead to more video game time or playing violent video games may lead to more aggression.

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The positive correlation between physical aggression scores and video gameplaying time suggests a relationship between the two, but it does not specify the direction of causality. Thus, both an aggressive personality leading to more video game time and playing violent video games leading to more aggression are possible interpretations of the correlation.

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