Question

Lee selected people with only the highest self-esteem scores for her experiment on the effects of divorce on self-esteem. She should be particularly alert to which potential source of internal invalidity:______

Answer 1

Answer: Statistical regression

Explanation:

Statistical regression for researching process is defined as process of selecting a sample from overall group or population that is non-random in nature and this results in incorrect relation between the measurement parameters .

This selection of group is done on basis of subjective approach and thus the correlation is not properly defined between the parameters which interrupts the statistics of research .

According to the question, Lee is selecting only extremely self esteemed people for divorce effects's research which will not give proper results as particular non-random sample is only selected.

As divorce effects can be seen in people with every level of self esteem and that would provide the actual and proper result.