Which of the Following Is a Reason Why Experiments May

question 100

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a reason why experiments may be hard to administer?

• A) Competitors may deliberately contaminate the results of a field experiment.
• B) It may be impossible to control for the effects of the extraneous variables.
• C) Both A and B are reasons why experiments may be hard to administer.
• D) Neither A nor B is a reason why experiments may be hard to administer.

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Definitions:

Function

A block of code that performs a specific task, designed to execute a particular operation when invoked.

Atomic Variable

An atomic variable ensures operations are completed in a single atomic step, preventing other threads from seeing its intermediate states during updates.

Scalar Variable

A variable that holds a single value of a specific data type, such as an integer or float, as opposed to structures or arrays.

Atomic Data Type

An atomic data type is a type of data that is indivisible in the sense that it is the simplest form of data types that cannot be broken down into smaller types.