A forensic psychologist replicates the linguistic analysis design of Hancock et al. (2011) to examine the speech patterns of incarcerated corporate fraudsters. They compare fraudsters who score 30 or above on the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) against a control group of fraudsters who score below this threshold.
Explain why this research design is classified as a quasi-experiment, making direct reference to the variables in this study.
