When Would an Experimenter Want to Use "Yoked" Matching of Participants

question 5

Multiple Choice

When would an experimenter want to use "yoked" matching of participants?

• A) when the required performance or response is too difficult for one person to do alone
• B) when the temporal sequence of experimental events could be confounded with the independent variable and influence the results
• C) when random selection of participants from the population is not possible or is impractical
• D) when participants are randomly selected from the population but not randomly assigned to groups

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