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D2AR0N

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A doctor prescribes a new drug for a sick patient. The patient gets well. Should the doctor believe that the drug made the patient well?
 
  a. Yes. This is a single-factor experiment.
  b. No. This represents a single-factor experiment
  c. No. There are too many threats to reliability to draw that conclusion
  d. No. There are too many threats to validity to draw that conclusion

Question 2

You survey a group of people who have just finished college, most of whom say that the experience was worthwhile and that they learned a lot. What experimental design does this represent?
 
  a. Archival
  b. Single-factor within-subjects
  c. One-group posttest-only design
  d. Posttest-only with nonequivalent control groups



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

c



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