A Researcher Has 80 Participants for a Study That Involves

question 3

Multiple Choice

A researcher has 80 participants for a study that involves four experimental conditions. If she assigns participants to conditions using matched random assignment, how many matched clusters or blocks will she form before assigning participants to conditions?

• A)80
• B)20
• C)4
• D)1

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