Sometimes Participants in an Experiment May Drop Out Before Completing

question 57

Multiple Choice

Sometimes participants in an experiment may drop out before completing the experiment. If this occurs more in one condition than in others, it introduces a confound called:

• A) mortality.
• B) maturation.
• C) statistical regression.
• D) selection-maturation interaction.

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