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Dr. Friedman suspects that women who work outside of the home might be frustrated with the balance of responsibilities in their household. She devises a survey to give to married women employed outside the home that includes the question "Does your spouse bother to help you around the house?" What is the problem with Dr. Friedman's approach?

a. It is an example of faulty thinking.b. It is cherry-picking the evidence.c. It reflects the present/present bias.d. It is an example of confirmatory hypothesis testing.

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D. Confirmatory hypothesis testing

Step-by-step explanation:

Confirmatory hypothesis testing can be referred to as, seeking and remembering information that can confirm, but not refute, a hypothesis.

It refers to the kind of statistical analysis where hypotheses that were properly deducted from a theory are confirmed

By confirmatory hypothesis testing researches mean the situation in which they had identified a specific set of theory-critical hypotheses in advance and they are now attempting to measure the evidence for or against them as accurately as possible.

That is what Dr Friedman is doing.

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