A university's Athletic Department is conducting a study to investigate the prevalence of performance-enhancing supplement use and high-pressure training cultures among its varsity athletes. The department's compliance officer designed an online questionnaire to gather data from all student-athletes across various sports.
To encourage participation, the questionnaire was completely anonymous, and athletes were instructed not to provide their name, specific sports team, or student ID.
Explain how ensuring the questionnaire was completely anonymous might have affected the validity of the data collected.
689 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Psychology Scientific processes. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.