Rousseau Visually Inspects Her Data Before Analyzing It Only to Find

Multiple Choice

Rousseau visually inspects her data before analyzing it only to find that the populations that she sampled appear to have very different variances although her sample sizes are equal.Which assumption of ANOVA has she violated and what should she do?

A) Heteroscedasticity; she should analyze the data as is but not report it.
B) Heteroscedasticity; she should report it with her statistics after analyzing the data.
C) Homoscedasticity; she should proceed as long as the largest variance is not greater than two times the smallest variance and report it with her statistics.
D) Homoscedasticity; she should substitute some of the data points with the mean of each sample.