A natural science research team identifies all the ways that the data being gathered might be discounted as irrelevant or as misleading, and then take steps to guard against the these problems with data collection occurring

This represents which step in the scientific investigation?
(a) Design a procedure to ensure that the data gathered will reveal the full range of possible observations.
(b) Conduct the study or the experiment and gather the data.
(c) Critique the findings.
(d) Identify all the factors related to the hypothesis and the phenomenon of interest that it will be important to measure, control, or monitor.


a

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