When a relationship is spurious:
A) the two variables under investigation are not empirically correlated
B) the relationship is deterministic
C) the two variables cannot be included as independent variables
D) the correlation between two variables is not a causal one

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A spurious relationship occurs when two variables appear to be related but are actually both influenced by a third variable, meaning the correlation is not causal.

When a Relationship Is Spurious