demand characteristic

English

Etymology

From demand + characteristic.

Noun

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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