Answer the Question. -A Researcher Wants to Determine the Relative Merits of Oak

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Multiple Choice

Answer the question.
-A researcher wants to determine the relative merits of oak and maple as firewood. Which process is most likely
To bias the results of the study?

• A)Comparison of the reports of wood burners on the internet
• B)Personal judgement of the fires of 15 pieces of each type of wood picked up from the floor of a hardwood forest
• C)Comparisons by 5 friends, none of whom have a wood burning fireplace, of the fires of fifteen pieces of each type of wood obtained from friends with woodpiles
• D)The judgments of the quality of a wood fire by 30 friends, half of whom burn only oak, half of whom burn only maple

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