A Sports Psychologist Develops a New Technique That Might Improve

question 60

Multiple Choice

A sports psychologist develops a new technique that might improve accuracy in shooting free throws in school children. To test her technique she arranges to give the new program to a girls' physical education class and the standard technique to the boys' physical education class. She finds that indeed the girls' accuracy in shooting improved more than the boys' accuracy. A colleague correctly points out

• A) that as this was an experiment the new technique caused the observed differences.
• B) that gender was an extraneous variable that was held constant.
• C) that the experiment is confounded by gender and is therefore inconclusive.
• D) that the results were actually caused by gender and not the technique.

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