A disadvantage of longitudinal research studies is that they:

A. can only include people of different age cohorts at a single point in time.
B. have a tendency to be biased as some people drop out over a period of time.
C. fail to distinguish age effects from cohort effects.
D. fail to include children and teens in their research.


Answer: B

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