For their 1992 study “the effect of country music on suicide” (published in social forces, vol. 71, p. 211), researchers stack and gundlach investigated various american communities, recording the number of minutes of daily radio airtime devoted to country songs and the suicide rate. they found a moderately strong positive correlation. in their paper, the researchers explain the results by saying that “…the themes found in country music foster a suicidal mood ” (emphasis added). a news headline (the independent [london], october 1, 2004, p. 15) about the research echoed these sentiments when it said, “strange but true: country music saps will to live.” the research is even cited on various suicide-prevention websites, some with headings such as “country music increases suicide risk.” based on this study, can we have confidence in causality between country music and suicide?

1. according to the article, the chinese government has tried to control its people in all of the following ways except: question 1 options: create and spread propaganda in the media censorship of the media allowing people to create their own social media deleting people's social media posts without their permission when a government has total control over its citizens, including the media, it is a of government question 2 options: constitutional monarchy parliamentary democracy autocracy presidential democracy according to the article, "social credit" is question 3 options: an experiment to people talk on-line a farming experiment that hurt people under mao ze dong using someone else's data from the internet, to give or take away things such as the right to buy an airline ticket a credit you get in china for having friends in real life, and not just on social media china wants to take control over social media in which other region? question 4 options: taiwan chile japan hong kong