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James is working on a quasi-experimental project for his research methods class and he needs to form two groups of participants.
 
  In doing so, based on pretest exam scores, James takes 30 of the subjects who do the best on the exam, and 30 of the subjects who do the worst on the exam, and assigns them to two groups accordingly. This technique of assigning subjects to different groups is referred to as the
 
   a. extreme-groups method.
   b. median-split method.
   c. random assignment method.
   d. regression method.

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In designing an experiment it is important that the ____________ and the
  ___________ be as similar as possible.
 
  A) Independent variable: Dependent variable
  B) Independent variable : Control group
  C) Dependent variable : Control group
  D) Experimental group : Control group



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amanda_14

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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

D




audie

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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