A Sports Psychologist Is Seeking a Screening Task for Talent

Multiple Choice

A sports psychologist is seeking a screening task for talent identification that does not favour one gender over the other.He recruits a sample of 119 athletes (70 male and 49 female) and records the time taken to complete the task.The distribution has a very long tail so he decides to conduct a nonparametric test in SPSS.The output is shown below: Which of the following statements is true?

A) The long tail in the distribution suggests that because some people had difficulty doing the task this means the task is not fair.
B) If some people had difficulty doing the task the research is not ethical.
C) Task difficulty does not itself make the research unethical it is a matter of whether the research violates ethical principles.
D) The long tail in the distribution suggests that because some people had difficulty doing the task this means the task is not fair but the research itself is ethical.
E) The research is ethical because sports psychology is a science and science is part of society.