English Explanatory Dictionary

demand characteristic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An aspect of an experimental design that leads subjects to infer, and comply with, researcher expectations, thereby confounding the experimental results.

Word forms

demand characteristic demand characteristics

Etymology

From demand + characteristic.

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