You want to understand the relationship between spending on education, spending on welfare programs, and rates of employment. You find statistics on educational spending by school district, but you find spending on welfare programs by county and rates of employment by city. What is the problem in using these statistics?
A) Your units of analysis are mismatched.
B) Your variables aren't correctly operationalized for your hypotheses.
C) You can't generalize from the sample.
D) You cannot research three different variables.

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The problem is that the units of analysis are mismatched, as the data is collected at different levels (school district, county, city), making it difficult to directly compare or analyze the relationships between the variables.

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