A Study Cannot Be an Experiment If

question 30

Multiple Choice

A study cannot be an experiment if

• A)only a subset of an existing population is measured.
• B)a well-defined procedure of random sampling is not constructed.
• C)a bias in measures is discovered.
• D)a confounding variable is identified.
• E)a procedure of random assignment to treatments is not performed.

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