A researcher hypothesizes that individuals differ in support for a balanced budget amendment based upon their partisan affiliation. He controls for education level and finds that highly educated Democrats are 27 points less likely to support a balanced budget amendment than highly educated Republicans but Democrats with lower education are 2 points more likely to support a balanced budget than Republicans with lower education. What’s going on here?
a. An additive relationship between education and partisanship
b. A spurious relationship between education and partisanship
c. A zero-order relationship between education and partisanship
d. An interaction between education and partisanship
d. An interaction between education and partisanship
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