A male psychologist is interested in finding out whether there are gender differences in a certain personality characteristic. He administers a paper-and-pencil test of this characteristic to a group of male and female students and then checks statistically to find out whether there are gender differences.

Which one of the following biases is likely to be present in that research?

A. experimenter effects.

B. observer effects.

C. biased theoretical model.

D. All of the above

E. None of the above

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25 August, 04:26

A male psychologist is interested in finding out whether there are gender differences in a certain personality characteristic. He administers a paper-and-pencil test of this characteristic to a group of male and female students and then checks statistically to find out whether there are gender differences.

Which one of the following biases is likely to be present in that research?

A. experimenter effects.

B. observer effects.

C. biased theoretical model.

D. All of the above

E. None of the above

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Dean Buckley · Answer 1

A. Experimenter effects.

Explanation:

Experimenter effects are experimental errors gotten during the analysis and collection of data, due to the researchers bias behavior. This bias behavior of the researcher reduces the validity of the experiment.

Therefore the bias likely to be present in the research of the male psychologist is the experimenter effects.