According to the text, confounding variables:
A. threaten experimental and correlational research equally.
B. are a greater threat to the internal validity of experimental research than to that of correlational research.
C. are not a serious threat to either experimental or correlational research.
D. are a greater threat to the internal validity of correlational research than to that of experimental research.
Answer: D
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