Developing Testable Predictions Before Conducting Research Is Most Directly Useful

question 99

Multiple Choice

Developing testable predictions before conducting research is most directly useful for restraining a thinking error known as

• A)random sampling.
• B)hindsight bias.
• C)the placebo effect.
• D)random assignment.

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