Serious violations of one or more of the assumptions underlying parametric inferential tests:
A. affect Type I error rates but not Type II error rates.
B. will lead one to commit a Type I error either more or less often than the stated alpha probability.
C. affect Type II error rates but not Type I error rates.
D. have little effect on the validity of a statistic.
Answer: B
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