Nonresponses as Well as Answers with a Suspicious Pattern Necessitate

question 17

Multiple Choice

Nonresponses as well as answers with a suspicious pattern necessitate ________ in the marketing research process that involves inspecting respondents' answers in the dataset.

• A)validating interviewers survey methods
• B)a separate phase of the data preparation stage
• C)validating respondents' answers
• D)a separate type of software analysis

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