Lumber Nu, a Textile Company, Posts a Job Opening for a Marketing

question 128

Multiple Choice

Lumber Nu, a textile company, posts a job opening for a marketing manager in a newspaper. The advertisement states that the company requires young and dynamic individuals who would bring new ideas into the company. In the given scenario, Lumber Nu's advertisement shows _____.

• A) age bias
• B) ethnicity bias
• C) gender bias
• D) race bias

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Definitions:

Spurious Relationship

A false association between two variables that appears to be causally linked but is actually due to an extraneous variable.

Nonexperimental Method

Use of measurement of variables to determine whether variables are related to one another. Also called correlational method.

Nonexperimental Method

A research method where the researcher observes and records behavior without manipulating any variables.

Experimental Control

The process of keeping variables constant or regulating external factors to ensure that observed effects are due to manipulated variables only.