A Researcher Is Concerned That Gender May Affect How Subjects

question 23

Multiple Choice

A researcher is concerned that gender may affect how subjects respond to an experimental stimulus.So subjects are paired with another subject who has the same gender,and one member from each pair is assigned by a flip of a coin to the experimental group and one to the control group.This method of assigning subjects to groups is called ______.

• A)matching
• B)quotas
• C)stratified randomization
• D)random assignment

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