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9.4 Why would you want to pretest research participants on the dependent variable?

The multiple reasons for pretesting include increasing the sensitivity of the experiment, determining if there is a ceiling effect, determining the initial position of the participants, insuring that the participants are initially comparable on some variable, and providing evidence of change.



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