A mistake committed by a trial court that is NOT serious enough to warrant a new trial because the mistake could not have affected the outcome of the original trial is known by which of the following terms?

When there is a significant time lapse between pretest and posttest measures, the confounding variable most likely to affect results would be

A) history. B) regression to the mean. C) instrumentation. D) selection.

If the pattern of dots on a scatterplot runs from upper left to lower right what does this indicate?

a. that the relationship is strong b. that the relationship is weak c. that it is a positive relationship d. that it is a negative relationship