Giving Half the Members of a Group Some Purported Psychological

question 138

Multiple Choice

Giving half the members of a group some purported psychological finding and the other half an opposite finding is an easy way to demonstrate the impact of

• A) risk prediction.
• B) skeptical scrutiny.
• C) hindsight bias.
• D) an empirical approach.

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