Which of the Following Uses of Deception Is Always Unethical

question 49

Multiple Choice

Which of the following uses of deception is always unethical?

• A)deceiving participants to get them to adopt certain attitudes or behaviors
• B)deceiving participants to gain access to a particular group or setting
• C)deceiving participants to be able to implement a specific independent variable
• D)deceiving participants to get them to take part in research that involves serious risk

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample data, that is likely to contain the true value of an unknown population parameter.

Inferential Statistics

The branch of statistics that makes predictions or inferences about a population based on a sample of data.

Sample Size

The number of observations or individuals in a subset of the population selected for analysis.

Confidence Intervals

A span of numerical estimates generated from a sample that has a good chance of encompassing the actual value of an unspecified population characteristic.