If It Is Impossible for a Researcher to Find an Unaffected

question 87

True/False

If it is impossible for a researcher to find an unaffected subgroup to use for a control, the use of a one-group before-after design might be unacceptable because of the reactive effect of the before observation.In such cases, a separate random sample is sometimes interviewed for the before measure.

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