Dr.Fletcher is interested in understanding whether joining a fraternity/sorority causes people to become more concerned about their attractiveness and appearance.He recruits a group of 55 freshmen (25 males,30 females)who are planning to go through fraternity/sorority recruitment on his campus.After they join,he gives them a measure of attractiveness concern/appearance concern (the Body Concern Scale,where higher scores indicate higher body concerns).

-In addition to measuring the group of participants who joined a fraternity/sorority,Dr.Fletcher decides to give the same measure to another group of 55 participants who decided to not join a fraternity/sorority.Based on the results below,explain whether Dr.Fletcher should be concerned about a maturation threat to internal validity.

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Dr.Fletcher is interested in understanding whether joining a fraternity/sorority causes people to become more concerned about their attractiveness and appearance.He recruits a group of 55 freshmen (25 males,30 females)who are planning to go through fraternity/sorority recruitment on his campus.After they join,he gives them a measure of attractiveness concern/appearance concern (the Body Concern Scale,where higher scores indicate higher body concerns).

-In addition to measuring the group of participants who joined a fraternity/sorority,Dr.Fletcher decides to give the same measure to another group of 55 participants who decided to not join a fraternity/sorority.Based on the results below,explain whether Dr.Fletcher should be concerned about a maturation threat to internal validity.

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Dr.Fletcher is interested in understanding whether joining a fraternity/sorority causes people to become more concerned about their attractiveness and appearance.He recruits a group of 55 freshmen (25 males,30 females)who are planning to go through fraternity/sorority recruitment on his campus.After they join,he gives them a measure of attractiveness concern/appearance concern (the Body Concern Scale,where higher scores indicate higher body concerns).

-In addition to measuring the group of participants who joined a fraternity/sorority,Dr.Fletcher decides to give the same measure to another group of 55 participants who decided to not join a fraternity/sorority.Based on the results below,explain whether Dr.Fletcher should be concerned about a maturation threat to internal validity.

DrFletcher Is Interested in Understanding Whether Joining a Fraternity/sorority Causes