A Friend of Yours Is Telling You About the Results

Multiple Choice

A friend of yours is telling you about the results of a multimillion-dollar government-funded study she heard about on the news last night. She complains that she could have predicted the results of the study before it was done and that here is yet another instance of the government wasting the taxpayers' hard-earned money. Which of the following issues would have the most relevance to the potential accuracy of your friend's complaints? It is the ______________________.

A) limitations of hindsight explanations
B) problem of demand characteristics
C) limitations of correlational research
D) problem of experimenter expectancy effects