Multiple Choice
You compute the correlation between two variables twice, once for the female participants in your study and once for the male subjects. You find that the difference between these two correlations is statistically significant. This finding
A) represents a case of reverse causation.
B) suggests that the measures used were unreliable.
C) means that gender of participant moderates the relationship between the two variables.
D) is mathematically impossible.
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