After listening to rather surprising results obtained in a fellow student's research study, a second student decides to do a similar study applying the methodology to a different population. What about the first study may account for the motivation of the second student?
a. the double-blind procedure
b. the heuristic value
c. the grade received by the first student
d. the gambler's fallacy
B
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