Expectations by the Experimenter That Might Influence the Results of an Experiment

question 313

Multiple Choice

Expectations by the experimenter that might influence the results of an experiment or his or her interpretation are called ________.

• A) treatment bias
• B) sample bias
• C) experimental blinds
• D) experimenter bias

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Definitions:

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