Professor Smith found a relationship between education and occupation. However, when age was introduced as a test factor, the relationship between education and occupation disappeared in the partials. In Professor Smith's study, age was introduced as a(n)

a. control variable.
b. spurious variable.
c. distorter variable.
d. antecedent control variable.
e. intervening control variable.


D

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