Quiz – Research Pitfalls Mastery

Question 1 of 6

1. Question

Confirmation bias is:

Seeking data supporting your hypothesis while ignoring contradictory evidence

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Overweighting failures

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A random sampling error

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Having a representative sample

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Question 2 of 6

2. Question

Selection bias occurs when:

Your sample is not representative

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You pre-register your study

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You use blind protocols

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You audit for bias

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Question 3 of 6

3. Question

Survivorship bias means:

Emphasizing successful cases while overlooking failures

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Only studying failures

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Sampling at random

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Ignoring your hypothesis

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Question 4 of 6

4. Question

Which researchers’ landmark work proved confirmation bias distortion?

Kahneman and Tversky

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Beyer and Holtzblatt

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Braun and Clarke

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Creswell and Plano Clark

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Question 5 of 6

5. Question

Match each pitfall to its mitigation.

Sort elements

Blind protocols
Pre-registration
Systematic bias audits

Anchoring and observer-expectancy

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Publication bias

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Overall research integrity

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Question 6 of 6

6. Question

Your study only interviewed customers who renewed their subscription, and the results look overwhelmingly positive. Which bias most threatens your conclusions?

Survivorship bias, since you overlooked those who churned

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Anchoring bias

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Publication bias

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Observer-expectancy effect

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