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Student FAQs in Psychology : Lesson # 1 - Random Assignment versus Matched Groups in PsychologicalExperiments

I, Jyotika Varmani, tutor students of Psychology at all levels. I reside in Mumbai and tutor students online. You can contact me personally on my e-mail id jyotikapsychology@gmail.com or call/message me on 9892507784 for enquiries. --- The myriads of questions that students pose to their tutors are more than satisfying for them, for they reflect students' curiosity and their desire for knowledge. Among these countless questions that are impossible to keep track of, are a few that the tutor cannot help but notice as being distinctive, for they come to her so often that they enter her personal collection of FAQs that she then anticipates and incorporates into her lessons. My own lessons have benefited from quite a few such questions themselves and in this series, I present a selection of those questions and answers that have made their way into my personal repository of tutoring. In this first post of the FAQ series, I address a query on psychological research, full of misconceptio