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A researcher compares people who have gone to college with those who have not. He predicts and finds that people with a college education are less likely to smoke or drink than those who never went. In this example, the researcher is using
 
  A. randomly assigned participants.
  B. a manipulated independent variable.
  C. a nonmanipulated independent variable.
  D. a correlation coefficient.

Question 2

A researcher finds that males make fewer errors than females when working in a competitive situation. However, women make fewer errors than men when working in a cooperative situation. This is an example of
 
  A. a confound.
  B. two manipulated independent variables.
  C. an interaction.
  D. a failure to replicate.



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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