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Jamie and Lynn were sure that they had answered most of the multiple-choice questions correctly because "the questions required only common sense." However, they each scored less than 60% on the exam. This best illustrates:
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Every twenty-fifth person who ordered a subscription to a weekly news magazine was contacted by market researchers to complete a survey of opinions regarding the magazine's contents. The researchers were most clearly employing a technique known as:
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Jamie and Lynn were sure that they had answered most of the multiple-choice questions correctly because "the questions required only common sense." However, they each scored less than 60% on the exam. This best illustrates: overconfidence.
Every twenty-fifth person who ordered a subscription to a weekly news magazine was contacted by market researchers to complete a survey of opinions regarding the magazine's contents. The researchers were most clearly employing a technique known as: random sampling.
Which research method runs the greatest risk of collecting evidence that may be unrepresentative of what is generally true? the case study
Surveys are most likely to indicate that reckless behavior and self-control are: negatively correlated.
A correlation of +.70 between children's physical height and their popularity among their peers indicates that: higher levels of popularity among one's peers is associated with greater physical height in children.
A tendency to notice and remember instances in which our premonitions of disaster are subsequently followed by harmful events is most likely to contribute to: illusory correlations.
Researchers are especially likely to use experiments rather than other methods in order to achieve greater accuracy with respect to: explanation.
Researchers control factors that might influence a dependent variable by means of: random assignment
Those who drank the nonalcoholic beverage participated in the ________ condition. control
In an experimental study of the effects of dieting on weight loss, dieting would be the: independent variable
The ________ can be a particularly misleading indication of what is average for a ________ distribution of scores. mean; skewed
The ________ is a measure of ________. standard deviation; variation
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