Assignment task: As a social scientist you are studying the relationship between peoples' religious affiliation (are you Catholic, Muslim, Jewish etc.?) and their attitudes about equality between males and females. You do this by giving attitude surveys to various people of different religious faiths. But, your colleague points out that your research is NOT JUST studying the relationship between religion and attitudes. Your colleague notes that your research results will be unclear/inaccurate because it also includes cohort differences. What does this mean? What are cohort differences in this study?
a) Your research indicates the religious causes of attitudes
b) Your research mixes up the effects of religion and attitudes
c) Your research does not indicate cause and effect
d) Your research mixes up religion and attitudes with other factors such as age and life experience.