Sampling Error Implies That

question 33

Multiple Choice

Sampling error implies that.

• A)mistakes always will be made in selecting participants for an experiment
• B)the means for samples selected from the same population will differ by some chance amount
• C)the means for samples selected from the same population will always be equal
• D)we can decide if an independent variable has an effect by visually inspecting the means of the different groups in an experiment

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