Question 1:

Which of these is true about correlation and causality?

  1. Causality is a symmetric relation
  2. Correlation in an asymmetric relation (x affects y is different from y affects x)
  3. Causality is an asymmetric relation. (x causes y is different from y causes x)
  4. None of the above

Question 2:

Which of the following statements best describes this expression? Cov (x,y) > Cov (y,x)

  1. x influences y more than y influences x
  2. y influences x more than x influences y
  3. The statement can never be true
  4. None of the above