An experiment was designed to determine if gender of the interviewer and the amount of eye contact by the interviewer will influence the participant’s liking of an interviewer. Thus participants were randomly assigned to groups that had either a male or female interviewer who made little, moderate, or sustained eye contact. At the end of the sessions, the participants were asked to rate their liking of the interviewer.
-This is a________ design.
A) 2X3 factorial
B) 2X2 factorial
C) simple randomized
D) 3X3 factorial

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This is a 2X3 factorial design because there are two independent variables: gender of the interviewer (2 levels: male or female) and amount of eye contact (3 levels: little, moderate, or sustained), making it a 2X3 factorial design.

An Experiment Was Designed to Determine If Gender of the Interviewer