If a research study reveals a difference between two groups that seems to be due to the independent variable but, in reality, the difference was due to some other variable that the experimenter didn't know about, there is a problem with

a. an extraneous variable.
b. demand characteristics.
c. the Hawthorne effect.
d. the covariance rule.

A

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