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Civic response logic: Determine the relationship between Statements I and II — 'Police recently apprehended a group of house breakers' and 'Local citizens have started night vigil in the area' — classifying them as cause, effect, or outcomes of shared antecedents.

Difficulty: Medium

Statement I is the cause and statement II is its effect
Statement II is the cause and statement I is its effect
Both the statements I and II are independent causes
Both the statements I and II are effects of independent causes
Both the statements I and II are effects of some common cause

Correct Answer: Both the statements I and II are effects of some common cause

Explanation:

Given data

I: Police caught house breakers.
II: Citizens initiated night vigil.

Concept/Approach

Both actions typically respond to an underlying rise in theft/burglary incidents. We check for a common precipitating cause.

Step-by-step evaluation

1) Increased break-ins → (a) police enforcement culminating in arrests, and (b) community vigilance.2) The arrest itself would more likely reduce, not trigger, vigil; hence I is not a cause of II.3) Treat both as effects of the same underlying spike in crime.

Verification/Alternative

Temporal order supports a prior surge in crime motivating both outcomes.

Common pitfalls

Assuming arrests cause vigil; causality more plausibly flows from crime rates.

Final Answer
Both the statements I and II are effects of some common cause.

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Civic response logic: Determine the relationship between Statements I and II — 'Police recently apprehended a group of house breakers' and 'Local citizens have started night vigil in the area' — classifying them as cause, effect, or outcomes of shared antecedents.

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