An experimental design involves comparing psychology majors and history majors on a measure of study skills and course performance at the end of the semester
Given that the experimenter is unable to randomly assign students to a major (psychology or history), this is an example of a(n)
a) ex post facto design
b) correlated-samples design.
c) independent-samples design.
d) qualitative research study.
A
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