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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by data collectors also

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known as our meddling parents every time we come home to visit alright here we go

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will receives a package in the mail from his local university asking him to fill [Passage appears]

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out anonymous information about his income job type and family structure

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this type of data collection follows which one of the following methods right

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here potential answer was the survey mm all right [Answers appear]

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naturally the naturalistic method describes naturalistic observation in

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which a subject is observed in their natural habitat entirely unaffected by [Kid looking through binoculars]

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the observer so unless the local university secretly installed cameras

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into wills apartment which is what we're looking for there oh yeah illegal felony

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this isn't the right answer double-blind method refers to a testing method where

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the researcher has no knowledge of which group is the test group and which is the [Researchers with black shades in a lab]

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control thereby ensuring that there is no bias in the experiment however since

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the situation described doesn't involve the test or control group this is in our

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answer either unless we'll has an evil identical twin who the university is [Will appears with evil twin]

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also contacting or some light aspect looks like we're starting to scare will

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of it stop it's definitely not the placebo method this term describes a

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placebo controlled study which intentionally misleads participants into

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thinking they're receiving a treatment when all they're really getting is a

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whole lot of trust issues imagine for a minute your friend brings you coffee to [Friend gives woman coffee]

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help you stay awake in your first class after a few sips you're feeling alert

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and ready to go it's only afterwards that she tells you she bought you decaf

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because you thought you were drinking regular coffee you reacted the way you

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normally would the decaf was a placebo which tricked you into behaving a [Girl receives decaf coffee]

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certain way it's also the reason why you'll never trust that friend again

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anyway placebos helped researchers to see if

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the results with the treatment are actually valid sure the pills the [Woman holding placebo pills]

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University has been slipping into wills coffee are just a placebo and not an

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advanced form of mind control set sorry we just can't help ourselves and

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it's definitely not the anonymous method which simply describes the acquisition

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of data from anonymous sources because of anonymous sources know everything and

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we mean everything there is to know about will even though he listened to [Man takes off Will's headphones]

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Britney Spears in the gym that leaves us would be the survey method the survey

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method is a means of statistic collection from a specific population

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through questionnaires and interviews it's a descriptive research method where

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participants answer questions in order to investigate a specific topic and fret [People talking on the grass]

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not will very rarely is it the method conducted by a nefarious secret society

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set out to control your mind so that is the kind of thing a very secret society [Will crawls under bed]

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would say to you to obtain trust

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