Many researchers devise "sham" treatments for their control groups to undergo, meaning that the control group interacts with researchers in some way that is not thought to impact the dependent variable, or the outcome This is done to weaken the argument that the treatment group improvement may have occurred in part simply due to the attention this group received from the researchers. These researchers are attempting to control for which of the following?
a) multiple treatment interference
b) the Hawthorne effect
c) selection
d) experimenter effects
b
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Although Lincoln believed that slavery was wrong, he did not advocate for it to come to an immediate end
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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In the 1948 contest in which Democratic candidate Harry Truman came from far behind to defeat the Republican Thomas Dewey, voter turnout
a. was about 53 percent. b. was less than 50 percent. c. reached a record-high of nearly 70 percent. d. was extraordinarily high and continued to remain so for the next decade. e. was high, but only for members of the middle and lower classes.
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