While helping your colleague analyze data, you realize that she has turned the participants' responses into z scores.Based on the response biases described in the textbook, for what is she most likely trying to account?
A) prestige bias
B) the deprivation effect
C) moderacy bias
D) the reference group effect
E) ingroup bias

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Z scores are used to standardize data, which helps to account for moderacy bias by ensuring that responses are compared on a common scale, regardless of individual differences in response tendencies.

While Helping Your Colleague Analyze Data, You Realize That She