Complex sentence: Spiegel noted that inferring the source of maladjustment from analyzing the shared variance between CSA and family environment does not answer the question of which variable explains maladjustment better,; the authors answered that this statement shows a misunderstanding of the statistical procedure used their meta-analysis.
Split into simpler sentences: Spiegel noted that inferring the source of maladjustment from analyzing the shared variance between CSA and family environment does not answer the question of which variable explains maladjustment better. The authors responded that this statement shows a misunderstanding of the statistical procedure used in their meta-analysis.