Suppose a Pilot Study Tells You That There Is a Great

question 8

Multiple Choice

Suppose a pilot study tells you that there is a great deal of natural variability in the population.How will this impact the design of your actual, full blown study?

• A)It will cause you to take a larger sample than you may have originally planned on.
• B)It will cause you to abandon the bigger study; you won't be able to detect any differences or relationships even if they did exist.
• C)Since there is so much variability, you might as well use a smaller sample size, because smaller sample sizes have more variability as well.
• D)The pilot study shouldn't impact your design at all; that would be 'data snooping.'

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