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Essay type: Bias

One of the concepts that may be used in Paper 1, Section C essay prompts is Bias. The SPR (Sampling, Participants, Researcher) guideline is only a suggestion. You could approach the response in different ways and still earn top marks. Remember, the assessment criteria (see the blue box below) are most important. The essay prompt used as an example is: Discuss bias in the study of the effectiveness of one or more...

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