On a practical level, why wouldn't a researcher be likely to create an experiment with a 2x3x4x5 design?
What will be an ideal response?
An experiment with this design would include 120 conditions. That would mean that, with a between groups design, you would need 120 people to provide a single person in each condition, and you would never want a single person. If you wanted 10 people, which is still small, it would involve 1,200 people. If you used a repeated measures design, each person could in the extreme, be involved with 120 conditions, which wouldn't be practical.
In addition, it could be very difficult to interpret the interactions, especially if there were higher order interactions (e.g., three- or four-way interactions).
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