A football coach hears that a new exercise program will increase upper body strength better than lifting

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A football coach hears that a new exercise program will increase upper body strength better than lifting weights. He is eager to test this new program in the off-season with the players on his high school team. The coach decides to let his players choose which of the two treatments they will undergo for 3 weeks—exercise or weight lifting. He will use the number of pushups a player can do at the end of the experiment as the response variable. Which principle of experimental design does the coach’s plan violate? Explain how this violation could lead to confounding.

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The Practice Of Statistics

ISBN: 9781319113339

6th Edition

Authors: Daren S. Starnes, Josh Tabor

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