A major misuse of significance tests is the tendency to
A) decide that if a result is not significant, the null hypothesis is shown to be true.
B) decide that the null hypothesis is false when the results obtained are not significant.
C) accept the research hypothesis when the results are not significant.
D) claim that a non-significant result is the same as an unimportant result.
A
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