How Can Researchers Lower the Probability of Making a Type

question 39

Multiple Choice

How can researchers lower the probability of making a Type I error?

• A) Researchers can change their research design from an experiment to a correlational study.
• B) Researchers can decrease the sample size.
• C) Researchers can change the significance level from .05 to .01
• D) Researchers can change the significance level from .01 to .05.

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