Dr. Gholson tells his students to maintain caution as they begin to draw conclusions on their own research. He encourages them to follow the law of parsimony, which means that ____.?
a. ?statistically significant results are not due to chance factors
b. ?results must be reported with the highest ethical standards
c. ?all members of a population had an equal chance of being selected for the study
d. ?the correct explanation tends to be the simplest one
ANSWER:
d
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