A doctor has completed a three-year research project on patients with dissociative fugue. She has decided the next step is to run correlational studies on her data. The doctor is doing this to

A. determine if her sampling is representative.
B. find trends and relationships among variables.
C. find a cause-and-effect relationship.
D. eliminate the possibility of experimenter bias.


Answer: B

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