If an Experiment Cannot Be Done for Practical or Ethical

question 20

Multiple Choice

If an experiment cannot be done for practical or ethical reasons related to manipulating the variable of interest, which of the following events should happen?

• A)The study should not be conducted at all.
• B)The researchers should wait until the experiment can be done.
• C)A longitudinal correlational design could be done instead.
• D)The IRB can grant a waiver of review to conduct the study anyway.

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Definitions:

Increasing Cost Industry

An industry in which costs of production increase as firms enter the market, often due to limited resources or factors of production becoming more expensive.

Long-Run Supply Curve

A graphical representation that shows how the quantity supplied reacts to price changes in the long-term, accounting for all factors of production adjustments.

Increasing Cost Industry

An industry in which the costs of production increase as the industry's output expands, typically due to resource limitations.

Decreasing-Cost Industry

An industry where the average cost of production decreases as the industry's output increases, often due to economies of scale.