Identify Cuevas’ recommendation for avoiding the common pitfalls associated with using secondary data.

What will be an ideal response?


A strong answer will mention that researchers should not use variables for purposes that are far removed for its original purpose. When this occurs, and data does not support concepts a researcher may want to pursue, secondary data analysis becomes a potentially misleading and poor methodology.

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