Author Question: Marney is studying the relationship between the rate of teen pregnancies in U.S. high school ... (Read 118 times)

Deast7027 · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Marney is studying the relationship between the rate of teen pregnancies in U.S. high school students and the availability of contraceptives. She selects a sample composed of teens from a local high school. Marney's sample may not be generalizable because it is not ____.

a. double-blind
b. biased
c. representative
d. dependent

Question 2

While conducting an experiment on alcohol tolerance, Dr. Guff solicits his participants at the door to Skam's (a local drinking and social establishment). When he publishes his findings (that people are extremely tolerant to the effects of alcohol), Dr. Guff's research will likely be criticized because ____.

a. there are too many dependent variables
b. he used a double-blind design
c. the sample is biased
d. there is no placebo