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fox · **on:** Jul 13, 2018

A researcher hypothesizes that men will consume more caffeine than women. After the study has concludes, the researcher finds that there is no difference between men and women (p >.05). What decision should the researcher make?

a. reject the null hypothesis
b. fail to reject the null hypothesis
c. accept the null hypothesis
d. accept the research hypothesis

Question 2

Researchers Brescoll and Uhlmann (2008) wanted to know if men and women were judged the same for expressing similar emotions in the workplace. Participants in this experiment watched a video of a job candidate.

The job candidates were being interviewed while sitting at a table. The job candidates were describing an incident in which they and a colleague lost an important account and how it made them feel. The first independent variable was sex of job candidate. Sex had two levelsmale and female. The second independent variable was emotion displayed. Emotion displayed had two levelsanger and sadness. So, participants viewed one of four job candidates. In this study, the first independent variable of sex was a __________ subjects variable.

a. between
b. within
c. mixed
d. facet