Publishing Research Results So Others Can Subject the Methods and Conclusions

question 61

Multiple Choice

Publishing research results so others can subject the methods and conclusions to critical scrutiny illustrates which of your text's unifying themes?

• A) Behavior is determined by multiple causes.
• B) Psychology is theoretically diverse.
• C) Our experience of the world is highly subjective.
• D) Psychology is empirical.

Understand and interpret basic summary statistics (mean, median, range, IQR, standard deviation).

Identify and explain the shape of data distributions (symmetric, skewed to the left, skewed to the right).

Analyze the relationship between the mean and median in determining the skewness of a distribution.

Calculate the middle 50% of a data set using quartiles.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

The default position in statistical hypothesis testing that assumes no relationship or effect between the variables being studied.

P-value

The likelihood of getting test outcomes that are as significant as or more so than the ones actually seen, presuming the null hypothesis is true.

Level of Significance

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when the hypothesis is true; often represented by alpha (α).

Grand Mean

The mean or average of several group means, which gives an overall measure of the central tendency across all the groups considered together.