A researcher who is interested in new car sales but who discovers that the secondary data are in the form of statistics that include both car and light truck sales combined in the data has discovered that the data fail to meet which criterion?
A)Are the data in the correct unit of measurement?
B)Do the data apply to the time period of interest?
C)Are the data supplied by a reputable source?
D)Do the data show evidence of reliability and validity?

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The researcher is interested in new car sales, but the data includes both car and light truck sales combined. This means that the data is not in the correct unit of measurement for the researcher's needs.

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