A Researcher Is Interested in Looking at the Relationship Between

question 18

Multiple Choice

A researcher is interested in looking at the relationship between sleep and use of meditation in nurses who work the night shift. The researcher obtains permission to collect data from the night nurses at a local hospital. While planning the study, the researcher is informed that a nurse on the night shift in intensive care is a frequent speaker on meditation techniques. The researcher must now address what specific issue related to her study design?

• A) Bias
• B) Manipulation
• C) Multicausality
• D) Probability

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