If researchers report that the results from their study were significant , p < .05, this means that:
a. if they conducted the study over they would get the same results less than 5 times in 100.
b. the results are untrustworthy.
c. we would expect the results to occur by chance less than 95 times out of 100.
d. we would expect the results to occur by chance less than 5 times out of 100.
d
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