By including a covariate in your experimental design, you ________.
A. reduce error variance and improve the sensitivity of your experiment to the effect of your independent variable
B. can assess the impact of carryover effects
C. can look at both between-subjects and within-subjects effects
D. All of the answers are correct.
Answer: A
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