Tiffany Is Conducting a Survey on Personality Traits and Binge

question 22

Multiple Choice

Tiffany is conducting a survey on personality traits and binge drinking among college students as part of her masters' thesis work.Tiffany distributes questionnaires to students enrolled in her own section of an introductory psychology course,as well as those taught by her thesis advisor.Based on this information,it appears that Tiffany has failed to

• A) randomly select the participants.
• B) operationalize the variables.
• C) randomly assign the participants.
• D) debrief the participants.

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Definitions:

Point Estimate

A single value or statistic that serves as the best guess or most likely value for a population parameter based on sample data.

Population Means

The average or mean value of a particular characteristic of all individuals in a population.

Population Means

The average values of a trait or measurement within a given population.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, commonly used to measure how accurately a sample represents a population.