Those who advocate applying inferential statistics to data from single-subject designs:

A. believe that statistics should be used only when intersubject replication is not possible.
B. believe that statistics should replace replication to establish reliability.
C. would not want to use statistics as a substitute for control over variables and replication.
D. believe that control over variables should be replaced by statistical control.


Answer: C

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