Explanations for Case Attrition Include All of the Following Except

question 28

Multiple Choice

Explanations for case attrition include all of the following except:

• A) legal judgments
• B) policy priorities
• C) courtroom availability
• D) substantive assessments

---

Definitions:

Participants

Individuals who have volunteered to be in a research project, or in Hymes’s theory, the people present in a speech situation and their roles and relationships.

Control Groups

Experimental groups not exposed to any experimental variable.

Experimental Variable(s)

Factors in an experiment that are manipulated or changed by the researcher to investigate their effect on the dependent variable.

Maturation

In experimental design, the problem of individuals changing over time, most obviously by getting older.