A researcher reports in a mainstream educational research journal that the statistic she calculated had a p >.05. What does this statement mean?

a. The outcome was very unlikely assuming the null is true
b. The research finding is statistically significant
c. The research finding is not statistically significant
d. The probability of this outcome or one more extreme is less than .05


Ans: c

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