Why Was It So Important for Participants Not to Sign

question 3

Multiple Choice

Why was it so important for participants not to sign the petition in the "Cool Earth" bill and for fake signatures to be included on the petition in the research study discussed in the text?

• A) it ensured participants' anonymity
• B) it ensured methodological pluralism
• C) it reduced social desirability bias
• D) it increased the power of the study

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the sample data, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter with a certain degree of confidence.

Sample Size

The number of observations or datapoints collected in a subset of a larger population.

Confidence Coefficient

The degree of certainty or probability (expressed as a percentage) that the confidence interval contains the true parameter value.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how spread out the data points are.