If You Change the Size of the Sample ______

question 46

Multiple Choice

If you change the size of the sample ______.

• A) the standard error will change
• B) the sampling distribution will change
• C) n will change
• D) all of these

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Confirmation Bias

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Availability Heuristic

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Base-Rate Information

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