You Have Recently Submitted a Study for Publication and One

question 156

Multiple Choice

You have recently submitted a study for publication and one of the reviewers mentions that your study suffers from a third-variable problem. What do we know for sure about your study?

• A) You used a repeated measures design.
• B) You used a between subjects design.
• C) You used a within subjects design.
• D) There were three independent variables in your study.
• E) Your study is correlational.

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Definitions:

Provincial Election

A type of election that takes place within a province or territory to choose representatives for the provincial or territorial legislative assembly.

Eligible Voters

Individuals who meet the criteria specified by law to vote in an election.

Voluntary Response Bias

A bias that occurs in survey results when the respondents choose themselves to participate, potentially leading to non-representative samples.

Undercoverage

A bias in sampling that occurs when some members of the targeted population are inadequately represented in the sample.