What Is the Effect of Recruiting Volunteers to Participate in a Randomized

question 57

Multiple Choice

What is the effect of recruiting volunteers to participate in a randomized experiment?

• A)The results will be more credible because people who really wanted to participate took part in the study.
• B)The results cannot necessarily be extended to the larger population.
• C)There will be no effect because the people are always randomly assigned to treatments, eliminating any type of bias.
• D)Researchers are never allowed to use volunteers to participate in an experiment.

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