Why Did the Public Find It Easy to Believe That

question 80

Multiple Choice

Why did the public find it easy to believe that Orson Welles's broadcast of War of the Worlds was a real event?

• A) Newspapers also printed the story as true.
• B) It was done in the style of a real news broadcast.
• C) A sizable meteor really did hit New Jersey that day.
• D) The broadcast was never identified as fiction or a dramatization.
• E) All of the options are correct.

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Definitions:

Multiple Comparison Methods

Multiple comparison methods are statistical procedures used to evaluate differences among three or more group means while controlling for the probability of making type I errors.

Fisher's LSD Procedure

A statistical method used for comparing means when the null hypothesis has been rejected in an ANOVA test, standing for Least Significant Difference.

ANOVA

Stands for Analysis of Variance, a statistical method used to determine the existence of significant differences between the means of three or more independent groups.

F-test

A statistical test used to compare either two variances or the variances of more than two groups at the same time.