You have recently submitted a study for publication and one of the reviewers mentions that your study suffers from a third-variable problem. What do we know for sure about your study?
A)You used a within subjects design.
B)You used a between subjects design.
C)You used a repeated measures design.
D)There were three independent variables in your study.
E)Your study is correlational.

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A third-variable problem suggests that there is an uncontrolled factor that may be influencing the relationship between the variables of interest, which is a concern in correlational studies where causation cannot be definitively established.

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