You conduct a study and ask for participants to state their age in years on a questionnaire.Upon consideration,you are advised by a peer to recode this variable into three age categories.Which of the following may be a valid reason for this change?
A)To conduct a correlational analysis
B)The distribution of the age variable is skewed
C)There are missing values
D)Participants were reluctant to state their actual age

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Recode into categories can help manage skewed distributions by grouping outliers and reducing the impact of extreme values, making the data easier to analyze and interpret.

You Conduct a Study and Ask for Participants to State