In Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Plans Members in Target Groups

question 28

True/False

In equal opportunity affirmative action plans members in target groups are given advantage only in selection situations in which applicants are tied.

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Definitions:

Experimenter Bias

involves the influence of the researcher's expectations or preferences on the outcomes of an experiment, potentially skewing the results.

Social Desirability Bias

The inclination of individuals to respond to queries in a way that they believe will be positively perceived by others.

Confederate

An individual who participates in a psychological experiment by pretending to be a subject but in reality works for the researcher.

70th Percentile

A value below which 70 percent of the data falls, used as a measure to understand the distribution of data in a set.