Instead of doing marketing research on people's fishing behavior, Billy Jay simply asked some of his fishing buddies how many days they thought the average person spent fishing each year. As a result, Billy Jay greatly overestimated the size of the market for his fishing tackle business. This shortcoming in Billy Jay's assessment is probably grounded in:

A) spreading of alternatives
B) miscalibration
C) nonresponse bias
D) false consensus


D

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a. True b. False

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A. treatment group, except that they will be exposed to the independent variable. B. treatment group in every way. C. control group in any other psychology study. D. treatment group, except that they will not be exposed to the independent variable.

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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