RESEARCH STUDY 12.1 Dr. Fletcher Is Interested in Whether Joining a Fraternity/sorority Causes

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RESEARCH STUDY 12.1
Dr. Fletcher is interested in whether joining a fraternity/sorority causes people to become more concerned about their attractiveness and appearance. He recruits a group of 55 freshmen (25 males, 30 females) who are planning to go through fraternity/sorority recruitment on his campus. After they join, he gives them a measure of attractiveness/appearance concern (the Body Concern Scale) .
-Refer to Research Study 12.1 above to answer the following question. In addition to measuring the group of participants who joined a fraternity/sorority,Dr.Fletcher decides to give the same measure to another group of 55 participants who decided to not join a fraternity/sorority.This type of design is known as a/an:

• A) Interrupted time-series design
• B) Nonequivalent control group design
• C) Nonequivalent groups interrupted time-series design
• D) Reversal design
• E) Stable-baseline design

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