A friend tells you about how she disagrees with current research regarding a particular drug treatment, because her grandmother took the drug and it worked. But, you know that when friends tell you, even with certainty, that a particular treatment helped, that in itself does NOT mean the treatment is effective. After all, friends are more likely to tell you about successful treatments than about unsuccessful treatments. This problem is called a(n) __________.
A) report bias
B) dependent variable
C) confound
D) independent variable

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The problem described is a form of report bias, where people are more likely to report successful treatments than unsuccessful ones.

A Friend Tells You About How She Disagrees with Current