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Hi John ! Here i am starting with the supervision of the EE for the new guide, but still teaching the old one ( last group of students sitting in nov ) These are the questions one of my students have come up with and i would like your feedback, I´m...
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Can students refer to an existing tool, which they use to influence their choice or deisgn of survey questions. They will not copy questions directly from this. Can they also mention using the scoring system used by the existing survey rather than...
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Hi john, I am confused about interdisciplinary EEs. Would an EE eg to what extent does x (behavior/dirsoder e.g.GAD, schizophrenia, anorexia) be attributed to genetic factors ? be under psychology now? I would think yes because the genetic...
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