Latitia Conducted an Experiment in Which All the Men Watched

question 101

Multiple Choice

Latitia conducted an experiment in which all the men watched an aggressive television program, and all the women watched a non-aggressive television program. Her results showed that people who watched the aggressive program were later more aggressive than people who watched the non-aggressive program. She concludes that aggressive television programming is detrimental. What is the biggest problem in Latitia's experiment?

• A) She has not used random selection procedures.
• B) She has confounded gender and type of television program.
• C) She should have used a correlated-groups design instead of an independent-groups design.
• D) None of the above; there are no problems in Latitia's experiment.

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Definitions:

Inferior Good

A type of good for which demand decreases as the income of consumers increases, contrasting with normal goods.

Normal Good

A good for which demand increases when consumer income rises, and decreases when consumer income falls.

Inferior Good

A category of products whose demand falls when consumer income rises, showing an inverse relationship with changes in income.

Giffen Good

A good for which an increase in the price raises the quantity demanded