An advantage of naturalistic observation is that
a. clear cause-and-effect relationships can be identified.
b. behavior has not been tampered with by outside influences.
c. the correlation between events can be carefully estimated.
d. one can predict the behavior of large groups of subjects from the findings.
ANSWER: b
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