Bias can occur in the interpretation of results. Medin et al. (2010) showed that researchers studying people in different cultures
a. assume that people in other cultures are less intelligent than they are.
b. tend to ignore unusual characteristics of people in other groups.
c. often use their own behaviors to establish what is "normal".
d. ignore peculiarities in behavior within the other groups.
C
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