Researchers Studying Expertise Sometimes Focus on the Abilities of Professionals

question 60

Multiple Choice

Researchers studying expertise sometimes focus on the abilities of professionals (athletes, chess masters, etc.) because:

• A) the researchers have a great deal of control over the environmental variables affecting such people.
• B) the performance of professionals is usually easy to quantify.
• C) these areas only require cognitive skills, which are the most interesting to researchers.
• D) professionals all have roughly the same level of expertise, which eliminates variability in the data.

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