Social Scientists Have Found That Computer Simulations of Human Social

question 117

Multiple Choice

Social scientists have found that computer simulations of human social behavior

• A) tend not to be very useful.
• B) are useful in the laboratory but rarely generalize to the external world.
• C) tend to have too many confounds to be useful at this point in time.
• D) are useful for explaining current data and generating novel predictions.

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