One Argument for NOT Conducting Statistical Tests for Single-Case Experiments

question 161

Multiple Choice

One argument for NOT conducting statistical tests for single-case experiments is that

• A) there are no statistical tests than can be conducted with a sample size of one.
• B) statistical significance is not the same thing as clinical significance.
• C) treatment effects are usually small; it would be difficult to achieve statistical significance in a single-case experiment.
• D) in order to conduct statistical tests, researchers would need to collect more data than is feasible for most single-case experiments.

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