A Male Psychologist Is Interested in Finding Out Whether There

question 59

Multiple Choice

A male psychologist is interested in finding out whether there are gender differences in a certain personality characteristic. He administers a paper-and-pencil test of this characteristic to a group of male and female students and then checks statistically to find out whether there are gender differences. Which one of the following biases is likely to be present in that research?

• A) experimenter effects
• B) biased theoretical model
• C) all of these
• D) none of these

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Definitions:

Average Run Length

This is a statistical term used to describe the average number of trials until a specified event occurs.

Control Limits

Defined in statistical quality control, control limits are the bounds within which a process metric is considered to be in a state of statistical control, beyond which indicates a potential issue needing investigation.

Standard Errors

Measures of the variability or spread of sampling distribution estimates, indicating how much sample means differ from the true population mean.

Sample Mean

The average of a set of numerical values.