Lexi is conducting research for her honors thesis on the effects of meditation on feelings of well-being. She randomly assigns 20 people to either meditate or not meditate for 30 minutes; then, she gives them a well-being scale. She uses SPSS to compare the meditation and control groups and finds a p-value of .784. What can she do to make this value more desirable?
a. Increase her sample size
b. Decrease her sample size
c. Increase her effect size
d. Use nonparametric statistics
Ans: A
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