Your friend, tania, is asking your advice on her new study design. she is conducting a study on whether milk chocolate consumption prior to a memory task will improve recall performance as compared to consuming white chocolate. she decides to include three participants in each group. you tell her that she should likely have more participants or she will lack validity.

Explain the difference between an independent and dependent sample. choose the correct answer below. a. in an independent sample, the individuals are chosen without replacement; in a dependent sample, the individuals are chosen with replacement. b. in a dependent sample, one would use a two-tailed hypothesis test; in an independent sample, one would use a one-tail hypothesis test. c. a sample is independent when an individual selected for one sample does not dictate which individual is to be in the second sample. a sample is dependent when an individual selected for one sample dictates which individual is to be in the second sample. d. a sample is independent when an individual selected for one sample dictates which individual is to be in the second sample. a sample is dependent when an individual selected for one sample does not dictate which individual is to be in the second sample. independent samples are often referred to as matched-pairs samples.