A researcher might delete a variable before analyzing the data when
A) the variable shows the expected relationship with the independent variable, but another variable does not.
B) the statistical analysis reveals that the variable did not have a significant impact on the independent variable.
C) a reliability analysis indicates that the variable does not measure the same thing that other variables, designed to measure the same conceptual variable, do.
D) the relationship of the variable to the independent variable is not in the predicted direction.

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A researcher might delete a variable before analyzing the data if a reliability analysis indicates that the variable does not measure the same thing as other variables intended to measure the same conceptual variable. This is because the variable in question may not be a valid measure of the concept it was supposed to assess, potentially leading to inaccurate or misleading results.

A Researcher Might Delete a Variable Before Analyzing the Data