Research Design/Analysis Question

A factory manager is concerned with employee turnover. ; In a typical year around 85% of the employees who were working at the beginning of the year are still working in the factory at the end of the year. ; Last year the rate was only 65%. ; The manager implements a more flexible schedule for the employees in an effort to make them happy. ; At the end of that year the retention rate for the factory workers is 79%, and the manager gets a pay raise for “solving the problem”. ;

Below is a list of threats to validity discussed in chapter 14. Identify which of them is most likely to provide an alternative explanation for the results,

[removed]A) ;Attrition
[removed]B) ;History
[removed]C) ;Maturation
[removed]D) ;Regression
[removed]E) ;Retesting
[removed]F) ;Selection

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Explain how this threat to validity could explain the results.