Three experimenters are independently observing the interactions of two college students
who are participating in a discussion about moral issues. Later, the observations of the
experimenters are compared for their consistency.
Comparing the observations provides a
measure of the
a. effectiveness of counterbalancing.
b. interrater reliability.
c. effectiveness of randomly assigning subjects to groups.
d. degree to which the confounding of variables occurred.
e. interrater validity.
b. interrater reliability.
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What will be an ideal response?
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