A young sociologist conducting research about grief awkwardly phrases a series of questions on a survey.This creates a problem with the validity of the findings because research subjects are confused by what the questions mean.This is an example of:

A) response bias
B) wording effects
C) researcher bias
D) overcounting
E) response rate bias

This scenario is an example of wording effects because the way the questions were worded caused confusion for the research subjects, leading to problems with the validity of the findings. Response bias relates to how participants may not answer accurately due to social desirability or other influences, researcher bias involves the researcher influencing the results, overcounting refers to counting a participant more than once, and response rate bias relates to non-response from participants.