A Threat to Internal Validity in Which Extreme Scores,upon Retesting,tend

question 23

Multiple Choice

A threat to internal validity in which extreme scores,upon retesting,tend to be less extreme is called

• A)a time-series confound.
• B)a single-group effect.
• C)regression to the mean.
• D)none of the options is correct

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