A student wants to know whether people who believe in an afterlife cope better with stressful life events than those who do not. Which of the following methods of answering this question does NOT rely on empirical data about this relationship?
a. asking a member of the clergy whether people who believe in an afterlife cope better with stressful life events.
b. interviewing several people about their beliefs about an afterlife and their reactions to stressful events in their lives.
c. administering a questionnaire to several people that measures their coping skills and their beliefs about an afterlife.
d. comparing the reactions to a stressful situation of people who do and do not believe in an afterlife.
Question 2
Which of the following is not an assumption of the one-way repeated measures ANOVA?
a. The data are interval-ratio in scale.
b. The underlying distribution is normally distributed.
c. The variances among the populations being compared are homogeneous.
d. The groups are independent.
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