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j.rubin

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on: Jun 19, 2018
Madeline plans to stand outside of a BMW dealership and ask the people she sees who they think will win the 2012 presidential election. Her study will most likely suffer from which of the following methodological problems?
 
  A) selection bias
  B) history
  C) maturation
  D) the Hawthorne effect

Question 2

A research design in which someone tests a claim about a variable by exposing a person to the variable and showing that the person thought, felt, or behaved as expected is referred to as:
 
  A) a pseudo-experiment
  B) a quasi-experiment
  C) a clinical trial
  D) an experiment


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tennis14576

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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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j.rubin

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Reply #2 on: Jun 19, 2018
Thank you


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Reply #3 on: Jun 19, 2018
No problem :)


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