Multiple Choice
A researcher identifies a potential mediating variable in the pattern of correlations among variables in a path analysis.If the researcher seeks to make a causal inference about the mediating variable,the suggested next step would be to
A) manipulate the variable as an independent variable in an experiment.
B) conduct a successive independent samples survey to measure the variable.
C) observe different levels of the variable as part of naturalistic observation.
D) determine whether a representative sample was used.
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