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What is a control group?
When testing a medication one group of subjects is given a pill that contains the drug. A second group is given a sugar pill that does not contain the drug. This second group is
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What is correlation?
When trying to determine whether behavior predicts outcomes I am look for this
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What is the false consensus effect?
An example would be this: Jeff mistakenly assumes that everybody around him enjoys listening to Punk Rock music just as much as he does. Jeff best illustrates
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What is random sample; population
Well-done surveys measure attitudes in a representative subset, or __________, of an entire group, or a(n) __________.
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What is random sampling?
What I would use if I wanted the same probability that each person in the population could be chosen
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