Tiffany is conducting a survey personality traits and binge drinking among college students as part of her masters' thesis work. Tiffany distributes questionnaires to students enrolled in her own sections of an introductory psychology course, as well as those taught by her thesis advisor. Based on this information, it appears that Tiffany has failed to:
A) randomly select the participants
B) operationalize the variables
C) randomly assign the participants
D) debrief the participants

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Tiffany did not randomly select the participants for her survey, as she only distributed the questionnaires to students enrolled in her own sections of an introductory psychology course and those taught by her thesis advisor. This could lead to bias in her results, as the sample may not be representative of the larger population of college students.

Tiffany Is Conducting a Survey Personality Traits and Binge Drinking