demand characteristic

noun

Etymology

From demand + characteristic.

Definitions

  1. An aspect of an experimental design that leads subjects to infer, and comply with,…

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

The neighborhood

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