When Experimenters Have a Vested Interest in Confirming Their Hypotheses

question 61

Multiple Choice

When experimenters have a vested interest in confirming their hypotheses, we sometimes see that

• A) researchers can subtly, unintentionally influence participants' performances.
• B) the evidence doesn't actually support their hypotheses.
• C) data analysis changes the way the hypothesis is framed.
• D) subjects try harder to mess up the data.

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