An Experimenter Conducts an Experiment on the Effects of a Drug

question 591

Multiple Choice

An experimenter conducts an experiment on the effects of a drug to control hallucinations. The experimenter declares the results to be "statistically significant," which usually means that

• A)even though appropriate statistics were used, no differences could be detected between the experimental and control groups.
• B)the results have important implications for theory or practice.
• C)differences of this size between the experimental and control groups would occur by chance only five times out of 100 (or less).
• D)differences between the experimental and control groups were so large they could never occur by chance alone.

Recognize the significance of zero economic profits and what it implies about a firm’s performance relative to its alternatives.

Understand the conditions under which firms will enter or exit an industry based on economic profits.

Determine the effects of variable resource additions to fixed resources on production and cost.

Analyze the relationship between total product, marginal product, and average product in the context of production.

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