... is due to the inevitable correlation in lower proficiency. The average ... . However, we should not mistake correlation for cause, so we should ... language proficiency has a direct correlation to this ability.
Now I'm getting scam calls after calling Prometric, asking for personal information urgently, pretending they work for Amazon. I never get scam calls, maybe a coincidence.
Well there's no way it's a coincidence if we're all feeling it: "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." I'm doing some medium level drills to keep my confidence up as we approach the 12th.
On a basic level, the author is saying that the correlation does not necessarily allude to causation. They support this argument by saying that rather than A caused B that it is equally possible that B caused A.
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