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Chelseaamend

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The experimental approach most commonly used in social and behavioral sciences makes two assumptions about variability. What are these assumptions and what methodological implications result from following these assumptions?
 
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When considering educational and clinical issues surrounding the use of a reversal design it may be appropriate to conduct only two or three brief reversals as a demonstration of experimental control.
 
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Answer to Question 1

Two assumptions: behavioral variability is an intrinsic characteristic of the organism and behavioral variability is distributed randomly among individuals in any given population. The methodological implications of following these assumptions include: the time needed to investigate variability may be time better spent and the practice of averaging the performance of individual subjects within large groups attempting to statistically cancel out variability are both detrimental practices to a science of behavior.

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