A Sports Psychologist Is Seeking a Screening Task for Talent

question 82

Multiple Choice

A sports psychologist is seeking a screening task for talent identification that does not favour one gender over the other.He recruits a sample of 119 athletes (70 male and 49 female) and records the time taken to complete the task.The distribution has a very long tail so he decides to conduct a nonparametric test in SPSS.The output is shown below: Which of the following statements is true?

• A)The long tail in the distribution suggests that because some people had difficulty doing the task this means the task is not fair.
• B)If some people had difficulty doing the task the research is not ethical.
• C)Task difficulty does not itself make the research unethical it is a matter of whether the research violates ethical principles.
• D)The long tail in the distribution suggests that because some people had difficulty doing the task this means the task is not fair but the research itself is ethical.
• E)The research is ethical because sports psychology is a science and science is part of society.

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