A professor’s research assistant has a penchant for cutting corners. Due to the rather complex nature of the ANOVA test, the professor has asked the assistant to perform, he has opted, instead, to simply run a series of t tests. Why might this be a bad decision for our assistant?

A. The between-group variance will decrease as the t tests are performed, making it seem as though a relation exists when none, in fact, does.
B. The familywise error rate will increase, making the work fraught with unacceptably high levels of error.
C. The levels of Type II error will increase rapidly, making the analyses meaningless.
D. The within-group variance will decrease to such low levels the validity of the work will come into question.


B. The familywise error rate will increase, making the work fraught with unacceptably high levels of error.

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