Fiona, a quantitative psychologist, is interested in using inferential statistics because they provide ____
a. ?a measure of how likely it is that a result came about by chance
b. ?a correlation between the dependent variable and the independent variable
c. ?information about the variability of the data
d. ?a summarization of a pool of data
ANSWER:
a
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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