After a Study Showed a Significant Effect, the Researchers Believed

question 128

Multiple Choice

After a study showed a significant effect, the researchers believed it would be best to repeat or replicate the study so asto have greater confidence that the effect was real and reliable.They are doing this in order to guard against the possibility that:

• A)a Type II error occurred in the original study.
• B)the original study lacked the power to find the effect they were looking for.
• C)a Type I error occurred in the original study
• D)the original had too much power and the effect they found was therefore a spurious effect.

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