Suppose You Conduct a Double-Blind Experiment, but You Leave Participants

question 77

Multiple Choice

Suppose you conduct a double-blind experiment, but you leave participants to their own devices to guess what the experiment is about. The effect of such a situation would be to create

• A) an extraneous variable.
• B) a nuisance variable.
• C) yea-saying.
• D) nay-saying.

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Definitions:

Advanced Placement

A program in the United States and Canada that offers college-level curriculum and examinations to high school students.

Chi-square Test

A statistical approach intended to determine the existence of an important association between two variables that are categorical.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis used in statistics that suggests no significant difference or effect, serving as a default position before any evidence is considered.

Chi-square Test

A statistical test used to determine the association between categorical variables, assessing whether observed frequencies differ significantly from expected frequencies.