A researcher is interested in looking at the relationship between sleep and use of meditation in nurses who work the night shift
The researcher obtains permission to collect data from the night nurses at a local hospital. While planning the study, the researcher is informed that a nurse on the night shift in intensive care is a frequent speaker on meditation techniques. The researcher must now address what specific issue related to her study design?
a. Bias
b. Manipulation
c. Multicausality
d. Probability
ANS: A
Bias means a slant or deviation from the true or expected. Bias in a study distorts the findings from what the results would have been without the bias. Because studies are conducted to determine the real and the true, researchers place great value on identifying and removing sources of bias in their study or controlling their effects on the study findings.
Manipulation is when the researcher does something with one of the variables.
Multicausality is the interrelatedness of many concepts within a phenomenon under study.
Probability is the likelihood of an event to occur within a given situation.
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