Mental Health Professionals Are Relatively Consistent at Judging

question 79

Multiple Choice

Mental health professionals are relatively consistent at judging .

• A) competence
• B) future risk of violence
• C) trial outcomes
• D) the duty to warn

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Definitions:

Alpha

In hypothesis testing, alpha level represents the threshold for rejecting the null hypothesis, often set at 0.05 or 5% risk of Type I error.

T-statistic

A statistic calculated from a dataset to compare the mean of the data to a hypothetical mean as part of a t-test.

Critical Value

The boundary value from a statistical distribution where, if the observed test statistic is beyond this point, the null hypothesis is rejected.

Null Hypothesis

A default statement suggesting that there is no statistical significance between the specified datasets, or no effect of a certain variable.