Jasmine is an African American graduate student. She is conducting research on the effects that affirmative action programs have had on American corporations. She found that 95 percent of the subjects she personally interviewed with open-ended questions, covering a diverse sample of 500 corporate executives, stated that they approved of affirmative action. Her response rate approving affirmative action programs was dramatically higher than the national average. In view of this, Jasmine's research was most likely affected by-

Interviewer Bias

Explanation:

Interviewer bias is defined as the bias caused in interviewing process in which some non-sampling error is performed by the interviewer. This error can cause mistakes like wrong questioning order,partial mannered questioning,influencing interviewee etc in a interview process.

Accordion to the question,Jasmine's research is impacted through interviewer bias effect because she is getting more than average rate of affirmation action response from interviewees of corporation due to presence of error or partial factor.