If Participants Drop Out of Your Experiment at Different Rates

question 76

Multiple Choice

If participants drop out of your experiment at different rates, you should be worried about which threat to internal validity?

• A) Maturation
• B) Experimental mortality
• C) Instrumentation
• D) History

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