Suppose a Researcher Was Interested in Whether a Particular Intervention

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Essay

Suppose a researcher was interested in whether a particular intervention would increase proenvironmental behavior. Besides directly observing subsequent proenvironmental behavior, how might the researcher assess the effectiveness of the intervention?

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Proportion

A part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole, often expressed as a fraction or percentage.

Samples

Selections from a larger population used to estimate characteristics of the whole population.

P-chart

A P-chart is a type of control chart used in quality control to monitor the proportion of defective items in a process over time.