A psychologist wants to compare heterosexual women with lesbian women with respect to the length of time a love relationship lasts. She decides to compare 100 heterosexual women who are married with 100 lesbians who are currently in a love relationship. Without knowing anything more about this study, what might you suspect to be an important confounding variable?
a. The dependent variable is not clearly specified.
b. The heterosexual women are in a legally "sanctioned" relationship, whereas the lesbian women are not.
c. The study includes no male participants.
d. It is difficult to recruit participants for a study like this.
B
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