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If I told you I’d have to exclude you: Do online research participants have too much experience?
When I was an undergraduate Research Assistant, I worked with two- to six-year-old kids in a developmental psychology lab. Aside from my general incapacity to get small children to cooperate, the data collection process took an excruciatingly long time. It can be hard to find people to participate in studies, especially when many of the…
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What is a confounding variable?
Whether you’re conducting research, reading about research, or learning research methods so you can ace your research methods course, you need to know exactly what a confounding variable is. If you think you’ve got it, then this isn’t the post for you. But if you’re confounded by the idea of a confound, then this post…