The usual rule in statistics that a study cannot find the null hypothesis to be true?one can only reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? is simply uninformative and such studies tend not to be published. Why is this a problem in the field of
psychology and other behavioral sciences?
A) Much work could be avoided if people knew which interventions had not worked.
B) Ideas may be assumed to be true only because a few studies found results supporting them while many more, unreported, had not.
C) Power and effect size considerations are being ignored.
D) Both A and B are correct.
Answer: D
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