What Would Happen (All Other Things Being Equal) to a Confidence

question 45

Multiple Choice

What would happen (all other things being equal) to a confidence interval if you were able to increase the sample size?

• A) It will become narrower
• B) It will not change
• C) It will become wider
• D) The sample size has no effect of the width of a confidence interval

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Definitions:

Empirical Evidence

Information acquired by observation or experimentation that is used to confirm or disprove a hypothesis or theory.

Theory

A system of ideas intended to explain something, based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.

Experimental Group

In a scientific study, this is the group that receives the treatment or intervention being tested, allowing researchers to observe its effects in comparison to a control group.

Control Group

In experiments, a group of subjects that does not receive the treatment being tested, used as a benchmark to measure the effects of the treatment on the experimental group.