Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Statistical regression as threat to internal validity refers to the fact that extreme scores for a scale (i.e., very high or very low scores) tend naturally to move toward the mean with repeated measurements; thus, it would not make sense to take only the clients with the extremely low pretest scores as your clients for an evaluation study and employ the one-group pretest–posttest design.


Ans: T

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