Regarding tests of statistical significance, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. They provide estimates about experimental results.
b. They are usually expressed as probabilities.
c. They allow us to make conclusions about research within a reasonable degree of certainty.
d. They are an important aspect of descriptive statistics.
D
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What will be an ideal response?
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b. You send rays from your eyes to the object. c. You send out rays from your eyes AND light strikes your eyes. d. Nothing passes in either direction between your eyes and the object.
Which of the following is most likely to be used when a principal observes a teacher in the classroom?
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a. to make an educated guess about the answer before trying to solve it. b. to make a matrix that shows the surface similarities between a current problem and a previous problem. c. to sort a number of problems into categories, based on structural similarities. d. to use the hill-climbing heuristic.