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Question 17 Verbal and Logical Ability 2019 Medium MCQ +1.00 marks · -0.25 negative

Does having a mood disorder make you more creative? That’s the most frequent question I hear about the relationship. But because we cannot control the instance of a mood disorder (that is, we can’t turn it on and off, and measure that person’s creativity under both conditions)…

Which of the following will make the authors contention in the passage fallacious?

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