Matching Can Reduce the Precision of Your Experiment If

question 5

Multiple Choice

Matching can reduce the precision of your experiment if

• A) the variable on which you match is not highly correlated with the dependent variable
• B) the variable on which you match is too highly correlated with the dependent variable
• C) the matching variable and the dependent variable are the same
• D) None of these are true. Matching always increases the precision of an experiment.

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