Your Receiver Must Cooperate by Decoding Your Message-Absorbing and Understanding

question 28

Short Answer

Your receiver must cooperate by decoding your message-absorbing and understanding it.

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Definitions:

Spurious Relationships

A connection between two variables that appears causal but is actually caused by a third variable.

Experimental Situation

The setting experimental subjects are placed in. This setting may be a threat to external validity if it does not reflect external reality.

External Validity

Relates to whether an experiment has in fact captured the external world that the researcher is investigating.

Attrition

The loss of participants during the course of a study, which can impact the study's outcomes and generalizability.