Why don't measured variables lend themselves to true experiments?

What will be an ideal response?


Measured variables involve pre-existing characteristics of participants. As such, you can't randomly assign participants to categories because you aren't manipulating the variable. Without random assignment, you don't have a true experiment.

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College students have used what major strategy in protesting the human rights abuses in the Darfur region of Sudan?

a. testifying before Congress b. pressuring their colleges and universities to divest from companies that operate in Sudan c. creating YouTube videos to raise public awareness of the crisis in Darfur d. sending student ambassadors to the region to engage in talks with government leaders

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What is the most common form of political participation?

a. voting in elections b. campaign work c. seeking information d. civil disobedience e. protest.

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According to the Census Bureau, the 2000 Census counted 594,000 same-sex households

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which of the following strategies for expanding civil rights would the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. have been most likely to support?

a. sabotaging the electricity supply to the homes of segregationist leaders b. intimidating elderly whites to discourage them from supporting Jim Crow laws c. boycotting stores that enforced segregationist policies d. boycotting elections to underscore the problem of African American disenfranchisement

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