Latitia conducted an experiment in which all the men watched an aggressive television program, and all the women watched a non-aggressive television program. Her results showed that people who watched the aggressive program were later more aggressive than people who watched the non-aggressive program. She concludes that aggressive television programming is detrimental. What is the biggest problem in Latitia's experiment?
A) She has not used random selection procedures.
B) She has confounded gender and type of television program.
C) She should have used a correlated-groups design instead of an independent-groups design.
D) None of the above; there are no problems in Latitia's experiment.

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Latitia has confounded gender and type of television program. This means that she cannot be sure whether the difference in aggression is due to the type of television program or to the gender of the participants.

Latitia Conducted an Experiment in Which All the Men Watched