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Cross-Sectional Design

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A cross-sectional design compares different age groups at a single point in time.

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Twenty-year-olds, fifty-year-olds, and eighty-year-olds are tested on the same task in one month.

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Cross-sectional designs are fast and confound age with the era each group grew up in.