Which of the Following Represents a Limitation (I

question 31

Multiple Choice

Which of the following represents a limitation (i.e.,a threat to internal validity) for any correlational study of the relationship between smoking and lung cancer?

• A) Some relevant factors could not be examined in a correlational study,but all these factors could be directly manipulated in an experiment.
• B) A correlational study about smoking is more difficult to set up than a controlled experiment.
• C) Smoking incidence could be confounded with other variables that might increase susceptibility to cancer.
• D) It is not possible to construct a contingency table that maps out the relationship between variables.

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