Please explain with example why the standard deviation approach would not be appropriate for analysis in certain situations involving the AB single-subject design.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Let us say that a researcher is measuring the level of emotional intelligence and that higher scores represent higher emotional intelligence. The researcher might expect the emotional intelligence score to be higher during the treatment phase than what was observed during the baseline phase. However, if the baseline scores show a noticeable upward trend in emotional intelligence, the trend suggests that even in the absence of treatment, the emotional intelligence scores would continue to go upward. In this case, the standard deviation approach would not be appropriate because the standard deviation approach assumes that the baseline trend does not go up in a noteworthy manner and that the scores on emotional intelligence, in this case, would continue to be about the same in the absence of treatment.
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