Provide an Appropriate Response

question 73

Multiple Choice

Provide an appropriate response.
-A district administrator wants to determine the effect of truancy on academic achievement. She asks the dean at
A high school to randomly select the records of 50 truant students and to randomly select the records of 50
Nontruant students. Identify any problems that are likely to cause confounding.

• A)the use of one person to select the records for members of both groups
• B)the use of records from only one school
• C)the number of records in each group (since, presumably, there are more nontruant students, there should be more members selected from that group)
• D)nothing (this is a well-designed retrospective study)

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Definitions:

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