Which of the Following Should a Reader of a Research

question 25

Multiple Choice

Which of the following should a reader of a research article be able to do, in order to decide whether the article's statistics are correctly selected and applied?

• A)Understand the discussion section of the article.
• B)Make a judgment as to whether the author's interpretations of the data are correct.
• C)Make some judgment about whether the statistical procedures used were the correct ones for the level of measurement used for the study variables.
• D)Make some judgment about whether the statistical procedures used were the correct ones for the research question.
• E)Agree with the study's stated limitations.
• F)Find the names of the statistical procedures the author used.

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