A researcher believes girls are more preoccupied with the way they dress than boys.Due to this assumption, he focuses his observations only on girls and their interactions with their friends, neglecting how boys present themselves to others.This is an example of ______.

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This is an example of selective observation, where the researcher only focuses on one gender and ignores the other, resulting in a biased sample.

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