A Person's Belief That Good Things Are More Likely to Happen

question 75

Multiple Choice

A person's belief that good things are more likely to happen to them than to other people is called

• A) personal optimism
• B) comparative optimism
• C) relative optimism
• D) self-serving optimism

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Definitions:

Population Mean

The average of all the values in a population, serving as a measure of central tendency for the entire population.

Sample Mean

The mean value derived from all the data points in a given sample.

True Null Hypothesis

The hypothesis that there is no effect or no difference, and it is the actual truth in the context of hypothesis testing.

Rejects

In statistical analysis, to reject refers to the decision of dismissing the null hypothesis based on the evidence provided by the data.