The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 9 - Producing Data: Experiments - Apply Your Knowledge - Page 241: 9.15

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Lack of blindness could cause bias in the reported results as the experimenter might be convinced that meditation should succeed in lowering anxiety and cause the subjects to feel that they should have lowered anxiety, while not inspiring such feelings in the group that did not meditate.

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Lack of blindness could cause bias in the reported results as the experimenter might be convinced that meditation should succeed in lowering anxiety and cause the subjects to feel that they should have lowered anxiety, while not inspiring such feelings in the group that did not meditate.
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