Which Is the Best Description of Positive Statements? Positive Statements

question 116

Multiple Choice

Which is the best description of positive statements? Positive statements

• A)have been verified by appeal to factual evidence.
• B)form the basis of all normative arguments.
• C)are falsifiable in principle by appeal to factual evidence.
• D)are seldom employed in social sciences like economics.
• E)have no place in economics because economics deals only with value judgments.

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Definitions:

Tukey's Multiple Comparison

Tukey's multiple comparison test is a statistical method used to find means that are significantly different from each other after performing an ANOVA, while controlling for Type I error across comparisons.

Fisher's LSD

A statistical method for testing the significant differences between means in a set of three or more sample groups.

Tukey's Multiple Comparison

A statistical test used to find the differences between means in a set of data, controlling the error rate when making several comparisons.

Studentized Range Statistic

A measure used in statistics to identify outliers in a data set, calculated by dividing the range by an estimate of the standard deviation.