Understanding the Natural Experiment for IB Psychology

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  1. Anonymous9 July 2020 at 19:09

    if we are contrasting schizophrenics patients (mild) and normal people (normal) in one study on the experience of their stressful events in their individual lifes....than is this a natural experimental design or quasi experimental design....can you tell? thank you in advance

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  2. Jyotika Varmani11 July 2020 at 06:55

    I can give you the answer but I would like you to try for yourself once. Do consider the example you have presented here in light of the pointers for identification that I have presented in the post and let me know what conclusion you come to.

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