Ethan has developed a scale to measure a person's fear of earthquakes. After the occurrence of an earthquake, he surveys 1000 individuals and finds the mean score to be 7.8 out of a possible 10 (the higher the score, the greater the fear). Ethan concludes that fear increases after people experience an earthquake. This study is an example of a:
A)true experiment.
B)one group pretest-posttest design.
C)control group design.
D)one-shot case study.

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This study is an example of a one-shot case study design because there is no control group and only one measurement is taken after the earthquake has occurred. Therefore, it cannot be a true experiment, one group pretest-posttest design or control group design.

Ethan Has Developed a Scale to Measure a Person's Fear