Psychology / Unit 8 Psych 0859 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Cross-Sectional Design
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The idea
A cross-sectional design compares different age groups at a single point in time.
In practice
Twenty-year-olds, fifty-year-olds, and eighty-year-olds are tested on the same task in one month.
Where people slip
Cross-sectional designs are fast and confound age with the era each group grew up in.
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