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SGallaher96

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of psychology that makes it a science?
 
  a. the use of empirical data
  b. examining the links between variables of interests
  c. an established system to challenge scientific claims
  d. the use of controls in observations and experiments

Question 2

SPSS is
 
  a. measure of effect size.
  b. a method of randomly selecting participants from a population.
  c. a statistical software package commonly used by psychologists.
  d. used for descriptive statistics but not inferential statistics.


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Leostella20

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Reply #1 on: Jul 13, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

C


SGallaher96

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Reply 2 on: Jul 13, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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