Question

Participants were asked to rate the importance of achieving honor-roll status. Researchers found that students from smaller families rated the importance more highly than students from larger families. The research team concluded that a student’s attitude toward school achievement is the result of family size. Which of the following is the most important error made by the research team

Answer 1

Answer:

The most important error made by the researcher was without considering the fact most students from the larger families might have not participated in the experiment therby giving those from the smaller families an edge.

This on the long run, led to those students from the smaller families to rate the importance of the honor-roll status very high

Explanation:

Answer 2

The missing options are;

A) Using self-report data

B) Assuming that correlation proves causation

C) Generalizing from extreme examples

D) Failing to randomly assign participants to conditions

E) Perceiving order in random events

This is about correlation between events.

Option B is the most important error

• Option A) This cannot be an error because it is not biased and is a normal survey.

• Option B) This is the most important error because the question asked doesn't in any way prove that the students attitude toward school achievements are the results of family size.

• Option C; This is not the most important error because there is nothing extreme about the researchers mode of research.

• Option D; This is not the most important error because the participants did not need to be assigned to conditions as the information required in the survey does not need conditions.

• Option E; This is not the most important error because the order of research was not done in random events.

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