Discuss the courses of action a researcher can follow to control ...

[elizabeth18]

Discuss the courses of action a researcher can follow to control extraneous variables and the statistical recourse that may be available if these fail to prevent a confound.

Question 2

Which of the following represents the standard deviation of the sampling distribution?
 a. range
  b. standard median
  c. dispersion
  d. standard error of the mean

[Loise Hard]

Answer to Question 1

The three courses of action to control extraneous variables include 1) holding extraneous variables constant where practical, 2) assigning treatments to test units randomly, and 3) using experimental designs that control for the effects of extraneous variables. If an extraneous variable confounds the experiment, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) can be used to statistically de-bias the dependent variable by accounting for it separately within each of the levels of the confounding variable.

Answer to Question 2

D

[elizabeth18]

Great answer, keep it coming

[aliotak]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it