Experimental mortality refers to a source of confounding in which:
A. uncontrolled events occur between multiple observations and affect the experimental results.
B. subjects are selected on the basis of their extreme scores on a measure.
C. age or fatigue affects the experimental results.
D. subjects drop out of a study more often in one condition of the experiment than in another because of the effects of the condition.
Answer: D
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