Refer to the Following Paragraph to Answer the Questions Below

question 18

Multiple Choice

Refer to the following paragraph to answer the questions below.
Mary Rodale studied discrimination against women plumbers. She hypothesized that individuals who believe strongly in traditional sex roles would be more discriminatory than individuals who showed strong non-traditional sex roles. She contacted 100 individual home owners who planned to hire a plumber. She offered each subject six possible plumbers to choose from. The plumbers had varying levels of experience and training and charged different rates. One of the six was a woman and the other five were men. Every single home owner who believed strongly in traditional sex roles chose a male. All those who believed in non-traditional sex roles ignored gender and chose on the basis of skill and price alone.
-What is are the units of analysis in the study?

• A) plumbers
• B) sex roles
• C) home owners
• D) skills, experience, and price

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Definitions:

Manipulated

Altered or controlled by someone or something in a skillful or sometimes deceitful manner.

Projective Tests

Psychological assessments that use ambiguous stimuli to uncover hidden emotions and internal conflicts.

Accurate

Accurate pertains to the correctness, precision, or truthfulness of information, measurements, or representations.

Objective

A goal or aim that is based on factual criteria, often measurable and unbiased.