PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Inter-Rater Reliability, Simple Random Sample, Observer-Expectancy Effect

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2001
• Professor: kimoneil

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