The natural groups design is effective for establishing
A) correlations between individuals' characteristics and their performance on a task.
B) floor effects for relating individuals' characteristics and their performance on a task.
C) causal inferences between individuals' characteristics and their performance on a task.
D) spurious relationships between individuals' characteristics and their performance on a task.

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The natural groups design involves observing and comparing pre-existing groups of individuals with different characteristics. This allows for the examination of correlations between individuals' characteristics and their performance on a task. However, it does not allow for establishing causal inferences or spurious relationships, and floor effects are not necessarily relevant to this particular design.

The Natural Groups Design Is Effective for Establishing