A Researcher Wishes to Avoid Making a Type 1 Error

question 13

Multiple Choice

A researcher wishes to avoid making a Type 1 error, so she sets alpha to .01 rather than .05. Which of the following is a disadvantage of this strategy?

• A) She may miss a relationship that is really there.
• B) She may overestimate her effect size.
• C) She may find too many statistically significant relationships.
• D) She may underestimate her effect size.

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