Statistical controls allow researchers to reduce the risk of spurious attributions of causality in nonexperimental research. The value of this for establishing causality is ______.
A. weakened due to the inability to meet the criterion of time order in nonexperimental research
B. weakened due to the inability to meet the criterion of association
C. weakened due to the inability to control for all extraneous variables
D. stronger than the value of random assignment for establishing causality in experimental research
Answer: C
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