Control or Reduction of Variables? An Experimenter Inclusive Model

1 August 1970

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports

Vol. 27 (1) , 80-82
https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1970.27.1.80

Abstract

A communication flow chart representing the experimental situation is proposed. Codings by E and S are discussed as uncontrollable intrapersonal variables whose number may be reduced by E serving as S. It is suggested that the designer of an experiment weigh the possible gain from the reduction of the number of uncontrollable variables against the possible loss of information from having only a single S.

Keywords

LOSS
CHART
INCLUSIVE MODEL
COMMUNICATION FLOW
INTRAPERSONAL
WEIGH
SERVING
EXPERIMENTER

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