Author Question: Dr. Gholson tells his students to maintain caution as they begin to draw conclusions on their own ... (Read 90 times)

bobthebuilder · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Dr. Gholson tells his students to maintain caution as they begin to draw conclusions on their own research. He encourages them to follow the law of parsimony, which means that ____.

a. statistically significant results are not due to chance factors
b. results must be reported with the highest ethical standards
c. all members of a population had an equal chance of being selected for the study
d. the correct explanation tends to be the simplest one

Question 2

Ernest has collected and examined his research data, and now has a set of general principles that he believes accounts for the acquisition of personality traits. Ernest has formed a(n) ____ of personality.

a. theory
b. operational definition
c. experimental design
d. opinion