Emily Does a Study to See If People Who Are

question 52

Multiple Choice

Emily does a study to see if people who are learning difficult tasks are hungrier than people who are learning easy tasks. She carefully develops one task that is easy and one that is difficult, controls the temperature and noise of the room for each group, and randomly assigns people to either the difficult or the easy group. She provides each group with ice cream and observes how many people eat it in each group. There is a confounding variable in her experiment. What is it?

• A)she shouldn't have controlled for noise and temperature
• B)some people might be offended that they got the easy group rather than the difficult group or vice versa
• C)she did not use deception
• D)she did not treat her subjects equally in all respects except for the variable that is of particular interest
• E)some people might not like or be able to eat ice cream

Understand key dimensions of financial planning: planning horizon and aggregation.

Grasp the concept of working capital decisions in financial planning.

Define and incorporate various finance-specific terms, such as planning horizon, debt capacity, and capital intensity ratio, into financial planning.

Explain the rationale and benefits of financial planning, despite inherent uncertainties.

---

Definitions:

Health Care

The maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration, or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people, delivered by health professionals and allied health fields.

Executive Orders

Orders given by the President of the United States which regulate the functioning of the federal government and carry legal power.

Federal Law

Legislation enacted by the national government of a country that applies to all individuals and entities within the nation's borders.

Recreational Marijuana

Cannabis plant products intended for use primarily for leisure and entertainment purposes, rather than for medical treatment.