Within- vs Between-Subjects Designs
Info sheet · Statistics for Psychology & Neuroscience
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What you’ll get from this sheet
By the end you should be able to:
- Tell a within-subjects design from a between-subjects one.
- Say why within-subjects designs are more powerful but carry order effects.
Between-subjects: each participant sees one condition. Within-subjects: each sees all — more powerful (each person is their own baseline) but exposed to order/carryover effects, which is why we counterbalance.
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