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Question 48

Assessment of Public Facility Engagement

A local council is conducting a study to assess the weekly engagement (measured in hours spent using facilities) of residents at a newly built community hub. The researchers compared two groups of residents:

  • Group A consisted of a volunteer sample of retired individuals who responded to a physical poster in the hub's lobby advertising a free morning book club.
  • Group B (the control group) consisted of a volunteer sample of young working professionals who responded to an online post on a local Facebook group advertising a weekend networking social event at the hub's café.

The council plans to use these two groups to generalise engagement habits for the entire local population and determine funding allocation.

Explain one reason why there might be a problem of bias and generalisation in this study. How could the researchers modify their study to deal with this problem?

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Scientific processes Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Scientific processes

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.

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