A researcher conducted a survey to determine if older people have different feelings about abortion than younger people

He used an alpha level of 0.05 (Z critical = ±1.96) to test for significance and found that his computed test statistic was 2.76. He may conclude that

a. the difference occurred by random chance.
b. the difference did not occur by random chance.
c. the samples are not independent.
d. the alpha level was too low.


ANSWER: b

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