A researcher at a University observed five couples who were cohabiting and found

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A researcher at a University observed five couples who were cohabiting and found that all of them eventually broke up. The researcher concluded that most cohabiting couples must be eventually breaking up. What kind of error did this researcher make in interpreting the findings? Narrow observation Tenacity Self discoversy Authority QUESTION 11 1 points Save Answer On what makes his commercials click, Steve Smith said, "I can't explain it, but all I can say is that I get this feeling about what would make the ad click once l start making it." Intuition Common Sense Authority Tenacity QUESTION 12 1 points Save Answer The demand charecteristics threat to Internal Validity can be controlled by? Cross Validation Statistics Instrumentation Intuition

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* Here the researcher is interpreting the findings on the basis of the observation of mere five couples who were separated after cohabitating for the whole population of cohabitating couples. This is a narrow observation error because the sample for observation is too narrow or small and do not actually represent the population.

ANSWER. Narrow observation.

* Smith in this statement is saying about his gut feelings or intuitions. Intuitions are vague feelings about a question or concept that do not have any scientific reasoning or rational behind it.

Solution. Option 1. Intuition.

* Demand characteristics is the anticipation or interpretation of subjects about the experiment or the research, this interpretation changes their behavior during the experiment poses threat to internal validity of the experiment. It is controlled by double blind study method.

Double blind study method is not provided as an option.

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