One disadvantage of conducting interviews is that this research method ________

a. does not permit follow-up questions.
b. does not allow subjects' answers to be detailed.
c. results in a very low response rate.
d. may easily allow the researcher to influence subjects' responses.


Answer: d

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a. internal; face b. criterion; content c. construct; concurrent d. concurrent; predictive

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A. intentional discrimination B. side-effect discrimination C. past-in-present discrimination D. ethnocentric discrimination

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