Sally is participating in an adoption study. Sally was adopted when she was seven months old. Her biological family could be characterized as Caucasian, middle-class, from an urban setting in the northeastern United States. She was placed with an adoptive family that could be characterized as being Caucasian, middle-class, from an urban setting in the northeastern United States. Sally's adoption presents what potential problem for the researchers of the adoption study?

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Selective placement is a potential problem because Sally's adoptive family is very similar to her biological family, which can confound the results of the study by making it difficult to separate the effects of genetics from the environment.

Sally Is Participating in an Adoption Study