Imagine that a group of researchers want to determine whether there are gender differences in people's definition of an ideal friend. They distributed an identical questionnaire to females in 2010 and to males in 2011 . Which of the following would be a confounding variable in this study?
a. the gender of the participants
b. the items on the questionnaire
c. the operational definition of "friend"
d. the year in which the questionnaire was distributed
D
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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