Nonexperimental Tests of Causal Hypotheses Will Continue to Be Popular

question 7

Multiple Choice

Nonexperimental tests of causal hypotheses will continue to be popular because ______.

• A) they give the same results as experimental tests, so cost is the more relevant concern
• B) there are practical and ethical problems in randomly assigning people in experiments
• C) they have to be conducted only once, while experimental studies must be repeated many times
• D) they result in findings that are more likely to be causally valid than experimental tests

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