Suppose you conduct an experiment to study the effects of love on improving children's
self-concept.
To manipulate the variable of love, you arrange for a research assistant to
hug each child after they have successfully completed a set of math problems. When the
session is over, you ask the children if they felt loved during the study. They all say no.
Apparently, your operational definition of the independent variable is
a. unreliable.
b. not operational.
c. too subjective.
d. uninterpretable.
e. not objective.
d. uninterpretable.
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