If a Finding from One Culture Fails to Generalize to a Second

question 42

Multiple Choice

If a finding from one culture fails to generalize to a second culture, this should be viewed as a(n)

• A) failure to replicate.
• B) opportunity to study a potentially interesting cultural difference.
• C) indication of the second researcher to not adequately train confederates.
• D) wasted effort, and shuts down future efforts to examine culture as a subject variable.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A statement used in statistical testing that assumes no significant difference or relationship exists between specified populations.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, commonly used to measure the precision of the sample mean estimate.

Population Average

The mean of all observations or values in a population.

Standard Error

A statistical measure that describes the accuracy with which a sample represents a population, specifically the variability of the sampling distribution.