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Callie W. Babbitt, Hema Madaka, and colleagues assembled a database of materials used in consumer electronics by studying products in the lab and by gathering data from similar product studies. The team gave each of these studies a rating for level of detail (with a higher rating for reported data with more detail) and for level of traceability (with a higher rating for clearer descriptions of procedures). Based on these ratings, a second research team concluded that the methodology was better explained in a study by Oguchi Masahiro and colleagues than it was in a study by Timothy G. Townsend and colleagues.
Which finding, if true, would most directly challenge the second research team's conclusion?
The study by Oguchi and colleagues had a low detail rating and a low traceability rating.
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The study by Oguchi and colleagues had a lower detail rating than the study by Townsend and colleagues did.
B
The study by Townsend and colleagues had a low detail rating and a low traceability rating.
C
The study by Oguchi and colleagues had a lower traceability rating than the study by Townsend and colleagues did.
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