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Your instructor decides to test the effectiveness of two different lecture techn

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Question

Your instructor decides to test the effectiveness of two different lecture techniques-multimedia vs. discussion-for her two sections of statistics. In one section she uses the multimedia technique during the first half of the semester and discussion for the second half, the opposite order is used for the second section. What is the name of the technique your instructor used to avoid confounding due to order effects? the technique of opposing orders O pre-post planning counterbalancing O order balancing

Explanation / Answer

1) order balancing is used to avoid confounding due order effets, since she may give priority for both sections have equal importance, she must used order balancing.

2) we may conclude that the researchers found a significant difference in libido before and after the drugs, since the calculated value is very high(5.45) for comparision of critical value, then the null hypothesis is always rejected i.e the result is significant it means we accept option 2