Your Independent ANOVA Experiment Has a Significant Main Effect

question 6

Multiple Choice

Your independent ANOVA experiment has a significant main effect. Your independent variable (IV) has three conditions and your hypothesis is one-tailed. What further analysis do you need to do?

• A) Do nothing; you don't need to interpret any further directional effects.
• B) You need to use means to interpret which condition has a significantly higher score.
• C) You need to conduct further analysis to break down the main effect and, as you have one-tailed hypothesis, you have to do planned contrasts.
• D) You need to conduct further analysis to break down the main effect and, as you have one-tailed hypothesis, you have to do post hoc contrasts.

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