A Researcher Asks an Assistant to Conduct a Study on Her

question 274

Multiple Choice

A researcher asks an assistant to conduct a study on her behalf. She specifically tells her assistant only to share the results anonymously and not include the names of the students along with their scores. Such an experiment would be considered a

• A) double-blind experiment.
• B) single-blind experiment.
• C) correlational study.
• D) laboratory observation.

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Definitions:

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