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Read the following scenario.
Tabitha is gathering a particular species of plant to test for its resistance to pesticides. She decides to select her test plants from one side of a highway.
Which type of procedural error is being described?
experimental design
selection bias
human error
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Selection bias.
By choosing plants only from one side of the highway, her sample is not representative of the whole population (side-of-highway effects could confound resistance). This is a sampling/procedural bias rather than a random human slip or a general experimental-design label.
By choosing plants only from one side of the highway, her sample is not representative of the whole population (side-of-highway effects could confound resistance). This is a sampling/procedural bias rather than a random human slip or a general experimental-design label.
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