Category: D

Duel-track. Refers to salary progression.  

Within a particular culture, the application of different standards of behavior to members of the two sexes.  

An insurance policy containing a clause that calls for a doubling of benefits when certain types of accidents occur, usually related to death benefits.  

Paralysis that involves both sides of the body, with one side being more greatly affected.  

In genetics, the fusion of the egg and the sperm, resulting in a In fertilized egg, and the fusion of the second gamete with the polar nuclei, resulting in a 3n primary endosperm nucleus.  

In genetics, a cross involving four inbred strains.  

A method of investigation in which neither the subject nor the investigator knows what treatment the subject is receiving. A method of studying a drug, or other medical procedure in which both subjects and investigators are kept unaware of (blind to) who is actually getting which specific treatment. The method is one of the few…

A method for reducing the biasing effects of the expectations of subject and experimenter. Neither is allowed to know whether the independent variable of the experiment is being applied to the particular subject.  

A procedure for comparing the effectiveness of a drug with that of a placebo. Neither the subjects nor the experimenter know which of the agents the subjects are given, the actual drug or the placebo, double blind technique.  

In research, two questions rolled into one, making it impossible to determine to which question the respondent is responding.