Statistical controls allow researchers to reduce the risk of spurious attributions of causality in nonexperimental research. The value of this for establishing causality is ______.
A) weakened due to the inability to meet the criterion of time order in nonexperimental research
B) weakened due to the inability to meet the criterion of association
C) weakened due to the inability to control for all extraneous variables
D) stronger than the value of random assignment for establishing causality in experimental research

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Statistical controls help reduce confounding variables, but they cannot account for all possible extraneous variables, which weakens the ability to establish causality.

Statistical Controls Allow Researchers to Reduce the Risk of Spurious