If Everyone Who Uses the Same Equipment Performs Poorly, the Tendency

question 147

True/False

If everyone who uses the same equipment performs poorly, the tendency is to attribute any one person's poor performance to internal causes; however, if other people who use the same equipment perform well while one person performs poorly, the tendency is to attribute that person's poor performance to external causes.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

The hypothesis in statistical testing that assumes no significant difference or effect in the population; it is the hypothesis that researchers aim to test against.

One-sample T Test

A statistical test used to determine whether the mean of a single sample differs significantly from a known or hypothesized population mean.

Standard Error

A statistical measure that estimates the accuracy of a sample mean by quantifying the dispersion of sample means around the population mean.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, showing how much the values differ from the mean.