Williams and Ceci (2015) sought to determine if gender biases exist in academic hiring practices. They studied almost 1,000 professors in a mock hiring situation in which each professor read the files of several job applicants and then rank-ordered the applicants in terms of most-to-least qualified. What the professors did not know was that the gender of the job applicants was randomly assigned
to the professors. That is, if one professor read that job applicant A was a woman, another professor read that the same job applicant A was a man. As a result, an average rating of each applicant could be compared when that applicant was presented as a male and as a female. In this study, what is the independent variable?
A) the number of professors
B) the rank order
C) the gender of the applicants
D) the number of applicants
C) the gender of the applicants
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A. Gregor Mendel B. Sandra Scarr C. Edie Sedgwick D. Fernand Lamaze
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Research shows that
(a) the presence of others helps performance (b) the presence of others hurts performance (c) either A or B, depending on the level of expertise on the task (d) neither A nor B; the presence of others affects skill level but not performance itself