Multiple Choice
Colette received an unusually high grade of A on her first biology test and a B+ on the second,even though she studied equally for both tests.Which of the following best explains Colette's deteriorating pattern of performance?
A) illusory correlation
B) the illusion of control
C) the random sampling effect
D) regression toward the mean
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