Marcia completed the analyses from her experiment, and as she predicted, she found a statistically significant difference (p<.05) in time spent studying between students with psychology majors and students with mathematics majors. Which of the following is true?
A. Marcia can prove her hypothesis.
B. Marcia can reject her null hypothesis.
C. Marcia can generalize from her results.
D. Marcia can plot her data using a scatterplot.
Answer: B
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