Francesca is at a casino watching a game involving dice. She determines that one of the dice is loaded, causing it to turn up “3” more often than would be expected by chance. To know for certain if this was true, Francesca would have to conduct a study to determine if her findings have statistical ____
a. ?significance
b. ?power
c. ?validity
d. ?generalizability
ANSWER:
a
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a. depictive b. spatial c. propositional d. descriptive
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