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dollx

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How can Type I and Type II errors be discovered? They can be discovered through _____.
 
  a. special courts held by the APA designed to make dishonest researchers confess
  b. replications (or failures to replicate) reported by other scientists
  c. complex statistical manipulations of the original data
  d. all of these

Question 2

If a researcher concludes that the independent variable did not cause the dependent variable, it might be because the causal relationship really does not exist between the variables, or it may be that _____.
 
  a. alpha was set too low c. the researcher made a Type II error
  b. the power of the experiment is too low d. all of these could be true


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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B
Replication is an important part of the scientific process of discovery and verification.

Answer to Question 2

D
There are many reasons for failing to reject the null hypothesis.


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Gracias!

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