A researcher knows that there is a relationship between obesity and watching television for young children. However, it is not known whether children watch more TV because they are overweight, or whether they are overweight because they watch so much TV. This is an example of the directionality problem.

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The directionality problem refers to the issue of not knowing the direction of causality between two variables. In this case, it is not known if watching TV causes obesity or if being obese causes children to watch more TV.

A Researcher Knows That There Is a Relationship Between Obesity