Data snooping is

A) referring to data or research that has not been published.
B) changing the hypothesis of a study after the data have been collected and analyzed.
C) used most often in large scale, lower-constraint research when clues to potential relationships between variables may be buried in the mass of data.
D) used to control confounding variables in experimental research.

Answer: C

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