In conducting a project to study the relationship between number of criminal offenses committed and education, a researcher introduces the variable of age. When this was done, the relationship between education and crime disappeared. What type of research was conducted?

a. replication
b. spurious relationship.
c. explanation.
d. interpretation.
e. descriptive.


C

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