When Using References, Which of These Should You Do

question 7

Multiple Choice

When using references, which of these should you do?

• A) Ask permission before putting someone as a reference.
• B) Pick only people that you have recently worked with.
• C) Select high school friends and relatives as references.
• D) Call your references after you have the interview.

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Definitions:

Reversibility

The ability of a process or condition to be reversed or returned to its original state.

Quasi-experimental Designs

Research designs that attempt to establish a cause-and-effect relationship but lack random assignment to groups.

Random Assignment

Random assignment is a method used in experiments to assign participants or subjects to different groups in a way that is completely by chance, ensuring the groups are statistically similar in all respects at the start of the experiment.

Quasi-experimental Design

An empirical study used to estimate the causal impact of an intervention on target population without random assignment. It is a rephrased definition highlighting its purpose for estimating causal relations.