If One Did a Series of a Priori Pairwise T

question 218

True/False

If one did a series of a priori pairwise t tests on k > 2 groups and analyzed the results using the t distribution, there would be a substantially lower risk of making a Type II error than if one used HSD or Scheffé tests.

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