In comparison with designs that only gather data on one occasion,longitudinal designs usually allow researcher to deal more effectively with the problem of:
A)environmental confounds
B)operational confounds
C)reverse causality
D)person confounds

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Longitudinal designs provide the opportunity to study how a variable changes over time and to identify causal relationships. This helps researchers deal more effectively with the problem of reverse causality, where the direction of the relationship between two variables might be reversed from what was initially assumed. Longitudinal studies allow researchers to examine changes in variables over time, which can help to clarify causal directionality. They would not directly help to address environmental, operational, or person confounds.

In Comparison with Designs That Only Gather Data on One