Your textbook described a study in which attractiveness of job ...

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Your textbook described a study in which attractiveness of job applicants was manipulated in order to determine its effect on judgments of job applicants. In that study, what was the criterion for selecting the photographs to use for the study? It was the _____ the people who judged the attractiveness of the people in the photographs.
 
  a. group average of c. inter-rater agreement between
  b. majority choice of d. unanimous decision of

Question 2

In the textbook, the author gave an example of a student who wanted to have participants read resumes and make recommendations about job candidates whose attractiveness was manipulated by means of photographs attached to the resumes. It was suggested that all the people whose photographs were used in the study be strangers to the participants. This was because _____.
 
  a. the participants wouldn't have taken the experiment seriously if they had recognized the people applying for the jobs
  b. the experiment wouldn't have taken the required amount of time if the participants had known the people applying for the jobs
  c. both a and b
  d. it was important to avoid familiarity as a confounding variable

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Answer to Question 1

C
Raters had to agree on which category the photographs belonged to (highly attractive, moderately attractive, r highly unattractive). This is one type of inter-rater agreement.

Answer to Question 2

D
Avoiding as many confounds as possible is an important goal of experimental design. In the study described in the textbook, familiarity could have affected the perceived attractiveness of the job applicants.