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Lars Generally Believes That Women Are Better at Cooking Than

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Lars generally believes that women are better at cooking than men are. However, his roommate, Karl, is an excellent cook. To account for this exception, Lars thinks of his roommate as a "male cook." Social psychologists call this process .


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P-Values

Probabilities used to quantify the significance of findings, or the likelihood that the observed data occurred by chance under the null hypothesis.

Null Hypothesis

A statement in statistical analysis that assumes no significant difference or effect, serving as the default assumption to be tested against an alternative hypothesis.

Level Of Significance

A threshold used in hypothesis testing to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis, commonly set at 0.05, indicating a 5% risk of concluding that a difference exists when there is none.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test. It is used to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

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