Vance Is Using a Cross-Sectional Design to Conduct a Study

question 26

Multiple Choice

Vance is using a cross-sectional design to conduct a study on attitudes toward gender equity in the work place.Vance finds that 40-year-old participants are much more resistant to gender equity than are 20-year-old participants.Which factor may make the interpretation of these findings difficult?

• A)results may be confounded by differences in the experiences of different birth cohorts.
• B)all of the participants were tested for their attitudes at approximately the same time.
• C)substantial data may be lost due to participant attrition.
• D)results may be due to the fact that attitudinal differences are related to differences in age.

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