Some Terms Nigem Mentioned

While the tiny man have been tryng to scare us for his own amusement, here are the only two terms I caught (along with what Alicia captured as well) as he mentioned the possibility of their appearing on the (most likely not-an-optional-but-a- required-to-answer) Terminology Question List:

Hawthorne Effect: people are influenced by the presence of the experimentor

Symbolic Realism: indicates the need for social researchers to treat the beliefs they study as worthy of respect rather than as objects of ridicule

Regression Artifact: i have stuff on statistical regression and regression to the mean, but nothing on this (c'mon... someone has to have this!)

Reflexivity: things acting on themselves. your own characteristics can affect what you see and how you interpret it while doing field research.

Mortality: Experimental mortality (a source of internal invalidity) refers to experimental subjects dropping out of the experiment before it's completion, and this can affect statistical comparisons and conclusions.

Selection: (was he talking about selection biases?)

Intrinsic: inherent, being an innaate or essential part

Probe: request for elaboration

As a matter of intuition, I just want to put the possible need for knowing the O X O diagrams for the various testing designs and their proper names because I can so see "Solomon four-group design", "posttest only control group design", "one-group pretest-posttest design", etc. and static-group comparison being on that Terminology list.