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While partial correlation is an important tool for statistically controlling third variables, it does not allow researchers to draw definitive causal conclusions. This is because the technique cannot resolve the directionality problem, and there may be other unmeasured third variables driving the relationship that the researcher did not consider and statistically control.

Limitations of Partial Correlation

Which of the following explains why partial correlation does not allow researchers to draw definitive causal conclusions?

Even after successfully using partial correlation to account for a known third variable, a researcher is still unable to make definitive causal claims about the relationship between two variables.

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