What is the most likely explanation for why a study with a very small effect size came out significant?
A) the study had a large sample size
B) the study had a large population standard deviation
C) the researcher used an insensitive hypothesis-testing procedure
D) the researcher used a two-tailed test
A
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a. understand scientific phenomena that are unintelligible to non- social scientists. b. understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals. c. understand one's own experience without locating oneself within the period. d. know the limits of man's capacities for every type of human behavior.
According to most hospitals, lack of brain activity
a. is the sole indicator of whole-brain death. b. only has to be absent in the brainstem for whole-brain death to be declared. c. only has to be absent in the cortex for whole-brain death to be declared. d. must occur in the brainstem and cortex for whole-brain death to be declared.
Researchers have found it discouraging that about __________ of abusive dating relationships continue rather than being broken off
a. one quarter b. a third c. half d. three-fourths
Sampling error reflects
a. the degree of error to be expected for a given sample design. b. the mistakes we make in picking our sample. c. the probability of selecting each element. d. the degree to which our interval is incorrect in systematic sampling. e. the probability of error expected for future samples from the same population.