In Chapter 9, the effect of children on marital happiness was examined separately for males and females. This means that 1) SEX was used as
a. the independent variable.
b. the dependent variable.
c. control variable.
d. a spurious variable.
C
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A) increasing the effect size by increasing the predicted difference between population means B) increasing effect size by decreasing the population standard deviation C) using a one-tailed test D) all of the above
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false