Which of the Following Is Information Gathered Directly from Respondents

question 92

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is information gathered directly from respondents in order to specifically address a question at hand?

• A) ethnographic observations
• B) experimental hypotheses
• C) primary data
• D) secondary data
• E) internal data

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Definitions:

Random Assignment

A method used in experiments to equally distribute participants across various group treatments, ensuring that each group is statistically similar at the start.

Manipulating Factors

Variables that researchers deliberately change or manipulate in an experiment to see if they have an effect on some other variable.

Confounding Variable

An outside influence that changes the effect of a dependent and independent variable on each other, potentially skewing the results of a study.

Factor Being Studied

The specific element or variable that is being investigated or examined in research or experiments.