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saraeharris

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Based on experiment brief 12, why should the state be skeptical of the results?
 
  A) they compared two similar types of government workers, who work in very
  similar environments
  B) they compared police officers who used radar guns to park officials, who also
  use radar guns
  C) they used a larger sample of police officers, relative to the sample of park
  workers, which may account for the higher percentage
  D) they used a sample of police officers from New Jersey, yet they used a sample
  of park workers who were not from New Jersey

Question 2

What mistake was made by the researchers in experiment brief 11?
 
  A) used an elite sample of rats, which confounds the results
  B) used too many rats in the experiment, leading to an excessive sample size
  C) generalized results from one sample to an entirely different, untested
  sample
  D) generalized rat results to humans, making the assumption that grade school
  children who each junk food actually exercise



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

C



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