In Widom's study of the effects of child abuse and its impact upon later criminal offenses, she selected a sample of children with court records of being abuse victims and gathered a comparison group that were matched on gender, race, age and socioeconomic status. The technique used in this case was ____
a. individual matching
b. aggregate matching
c. randomization
d. probabilistic aggregation
A
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What will be an ideal response?
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