Latitia conducted an experiment in which all the men watched an aggressive television program, and all the women watched a non-aggressive television program. Her results showed that people who watched the aggressive program were later more aggressive than people who watched the non-aggressive program. She concludes that aggressive television programming is detrimental. What is the biggest problem in Latitia's experiment?

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Latitia conducted an experiment in which all the men watched an aggressive television program, and all the women watched a non-aggressive television program. Her results showed that people who watched the aggressive program were later more aggressive than people who watched the non-aggressive program. She concludes that aggressive television programming is detrimental. What is the biggest problem in Latitia's experiment?

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Easton Boone · Answer 1

She has confounded gender and type of television program

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confounding factor in research is simply that thing aside thing being studied, that could be causing the changes seen in a study. When there is a confounding variable problem/effect in an experiment, it can have a hidden effect on your experiment's outcome of also cause a great influence to alter the results of research because they can change the result that the researchers are measuring.