Handling a Nonsignificant Outcome If You Have Designed a Sound

question 19

Multiple Choice

Handling a Nonsignificant Outcome If you have designed a sound procedure for studying a hypothesis, have carefully executed the experiment, and still obtain statistically nonsignificant results, you should

• A)attempt to replicate the nonsignificant findings with a different sample.
• B)consider the possibility that the research hypothesis was faulty and rethink the problem.
• C)reanalyze your data with a nonparametric statistical procedure in place of a parametric procedure.
• D)redesign the study and test the hypothesis again.