Explain why repeated measures designs can be more useful than nonrepeated measures designs when participants provide subjective ratings. Why are objective measures less problematic in nonrepeated designs?

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When participants engage in subjective ratings, as on a Likert-type scale, each person brings his or her own perspective to the judgment task. There is no guarantee that two different people will have the same subjective rating perspective. With objective measures, we rely less on personal perspectives and instead focus on more externally verifiable behaviors.

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