Let's Assume You Are Conducting an Experiment to Determine the Effect

question 66

Multiple Choice

Let's assume you are conducting an experiment to determine the effect of a new drug on the incidence of epileptic seizures. You select 20 epileptics from the 150 epileptics being treated at a nearby hospital and administer the drug to them. You record the number of seizures in each of the 20 subjects for one month. The 20 subjects constitute _________.

• A) the dependent variable
• B) the sample
• C) a statistic
• D) the independent variable

Understand the evolution of theories on morality and the methods used to assess moral judgment.

Understand the advantages of collaboration in a professional setting.

Recognize the technologies and practices that facilitate effective collaboration.

Identify features of word-processing software that aid in collaborative writing.

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Definitions:

Unrelated Groups

Groups in a study that are independent from each other, where the participants in one group are not matched or linked to those in other groups.

Hypothesis Testing

A statistical method that uses sample data to evaluate a hypothesis about a population parameter.

Critical Value

A threshold in statistics that the test statistic must exceed for the null hypothesis to be rejected in significance testing.

Type I Error

The incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis, also known as a "false positive."