demand characteristic

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From demand + characteristic.

Noun[edit]

demand characteristic (plural demand characteristics)

  1. (usually in the plural) An aspect of an experimental design that leads subjects to infer, and comply with, researcher expectations, thereby confounding the experimental results.
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