Question

Maya believes inchworms are faster than snails. She conducts an experiment to test her hypothesis. Which of the following would show confirmation bias? Maya ignores the inchworms which are slower than snails. Maya proves her hypothesis. Maya focuses equally on all worms in the experiment. Maya disproves her hypothesis.

Answer 1

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

Maya believes that inchworms are faster when compared with snails. To prove this hypothesis she performs experiment and while performing experiment she ignored the inchworms that moves slower than snails.

This is a biased condition because she ignored the inchworms that were slow.

If she would have been unbiased then she should have tested all the inchworms that were slow or fast from snails.

Hence, option C is the correct answer.