A therapist provides treatment to 50 percent of people with depression seeking help, while putting the others on a waiting list. After three months, he evaluates most of his patients as less depressed than those on the waiting list. What is wrong with this study?

a. The therapist should have used a blind observer

b. The study has too many independent variables.
c. The study does not have enough demand characteristics.
d. The study should have had more people on the waiting list.

a

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