Paulette Encounters the Following Sentence in a Psychology Journal Article

question 14

Multiple Choice

Paulette encounters the following sentence in a psychology journal article she is reading: "Participants exposed to brief heat stress made more errors on the visual attention task than did participants not exposed to heat stress, p < .05." Paulette can conclude each of the following EXCEPT:

• A) The difference between the groups in the number of errors most likely stems from heat stress.
• B) There was a significant difference between the groups in the number of errors.
• C) The number of errors was much larger in the heat stress group than it was in the other group.
• D) There is less than a 5% chance that random coincidence was responsible for the difference between the groups in the number of errors.

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