The Best Practices Put Forth by Simmons and Colleagues (2011)

question 134

Multiple Choice

The best practices put forth by Simmons and colleagues (2011) to help decrease the temptation to falsify data include all of the following, EXCEPT:

• A) decide in advance how many participants to collect data from.
• B) report all of the different groups included in the study.
• C) report only the pieces of data that achieved statistical significance.
• D) report all of the different variables assessed in the study.

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Definitions:

Retention Ratio

The proportion of earnings that is not distributed as dividends to shareholders, but is retained by the company for reinvestment.

Cash Dividends

Distributions of profits from a corporation to its shareholders as payments.

Selling and Administrative Expenses

Indirect costs not directly tied to product production, including marketing, management, rent, and utilities.

Significance Level

A threshold in statistical hypothesis testing that determines the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true.