A professor provides a special study guide to the students who chose seats in the front two rows of class. Later these students get better than average test scores. What is wrong with this experiment?
a. The professor failed to provide demand characteristics
b. The procedure probably had too many independent variables.
c. Students were not randomly assigned to groups.
d. The experiment did not have a hypothesis.
c
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a. True b. False