The owners of the Syfy channel are interested in whether watching the Syfy channel causes people to become "geeky," and whether any such effects depend on a person's gender.They hire a researcher to design and carry out the appropriate study.The researcher asks an equal number of men and women to watch 0, 3, 5, and 9 hours of the Syfy channel each week for 6 weeks.At the end of each week, the researcher measures the "geekiness" of the men and women on a scale from 1 to 10.How should the researcher label the ANOVA used to analyze the data?
A) a 2 × 4 × 6 mixed-design ANOVA
B) a 2 × 4 × 6 mixed-design MANOVA
C) a 4 × 2 within-groups ANOVA
D) a 2 × 2 mixed-design ANOVA

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The correct choice is a 2 × 4 × 6 mixed-design ANOVA because it involves two independent variables (gender with 2 levels and hours of watching with 4 levels) and one dependent variable measured over 6 time points, making it a mixed design with both between-subjects (gender) and within-subjects (time) factors.

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