Which of These Statements Is True

question 88

Multiple Choice

Which of these statements is true?

• A) When people purchase a stock, they know exactly what their dollar and percent return are going to be.
• B) Many people purchase stocks as they find comfort in the certainty for this safe form of investing.
• C) When people purchase a stock, they know the short-term return, but not the long-term return.
• D) When people purchase a stock, they do not know what their return is going to be-either short term or in the long run.

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Definitions:

Operational Definitions

Precise descriptions of the variables used in a study, defining them in terms of the specific operations or techniques used to measure or manipulate them.

Analogue Methodology

Research methods that simulate real-life situations in a controlled environment, often used to study behaviors or phenomena that cannot be directly manipulated for ethical or practical reasons.

Internal Validity

The degree to which a study can demonstrate a causal relationship between variables, free from the contamination of other variables that might confound the results.

External Validity

The degree to which a study's findings can be applied to different contexts and diverse individuals.