A Confounding Variable Is an Example of ___________, Whereas an Extraneous

question 2

Multiple Choice

A confounding variable is an example of ___________, whereas an extraneous variable is an example of __________.

• A) systematic error; experimenter error
• B) random error; systematic error
• C) experimenter error; random error
• D) systematic error; random error

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Definitions:

Sample Mean

The average of a set of numerical values, taken from a sample of a larger population.

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Variance

A statistical metric that quantifies the degree to which individual numbers in a dataset differ from the dataset's mean.

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