Carefully read the following statements and give an appropriate answer:
(1) Stage mentalists and psychics often use deception in their acts
(2) Blaming the lunar cycle for variations in the rate of violent crime is an example of mistaking correlations for causation
(3) Psychiatric interpretations of a patient's broom-holding behaviour show the importance of using a control group in experiments
A. All the statements are true
B. All the statements are false
C. (1) and (2) are true, but (3) is false
D. (1) and (2) are false, but (3) is true
Answer: Option C
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