According to the text, an operational confound occurs when a measure:
A) fails to assess some of the features that define a construct
B) assesses another construct (in addition to what the researcher intended to measure)
C) assesses a construct whose causes are poorly understood
D) does not make sense to some of the participants in a study
B
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