The results of a round robin design showed that Darryl liked all of his group members very much, while Hannah did not like any of her group members, and thus rated them all lower than the average rating. These tendencies for individual members to show patterns of responses is called (a):
A) participant bias
B) response set
C) sociomatrix
D) trend

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The tendency for individual members to consistently respond in a particular way, such as liking or disliking all group members, is called a response set. This can distort the results of a study and is a type of systematic error or bias. The other options, participant bias, sociomatrix, and trend, do not accurately describe this phenomenon.

The Results of a Round Robin Design Showed That Darryl