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Suppose a Researcher Decided to Study Everyday Altruism Toward Men

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Suppose a researcher decided to study everyday altruism toward men versus women by leaving (fake) fully addressed college applications in airport lobbies (identical except with male vs. female applicant names) , and then tracking the number of people who send in the application. What kind of study is this?


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Population Proportions

Ratios or fractions that represent parts of a whole for specified groups within a population.

Sample Counts

The actual observed frequencies or totals of occurrences or items in sampled categories or groups.

Sample Proportions

The fraction or percentage of observations within a sample that fall into a particular category, useful for estimating population proportions in inferential statistics.

Standard Error

A measure that describes the distribution of sample means around the population mean, indicating the precision of the sample mean as an estimate of the population mean.

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