Problem: In the? report, the researchers stated that? "the research team also? hasn't ruled out that a common factor like genetics could be causing both the emotions and the diabetes?." Explain what this sentence means. Need Assignment Help? Choose the correct answer below. A. The researchers thought that genetics had greater influence than level of trauma. B. The researchers may be concerned with confounding that occurs when the effects of two or more explanatory variables are not separated or when there are some explanatory variables that were not considered in a? study, but that affect the value of the response variable. C. It is not important to adjust for explanatory variables.