After rigorous statistical analyses have shown a very low likelihood (usually 5% or less) of a result having occurred by

chance alone, the result is said to be ____.



a. quantitatively probable
b. probably random
c. statistically significant
d. due to sampling error
e. statistically probable


ANSWER: c

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