What Is the Main Implication of the Finding Known as the Dodo

question 184

Multiple Choice

What is the main implication of the finding known as the Dodo Bird verdict?

• A) It doesn't matter which psychotherapy a therapist uses because all are about equally effective.
• B) A psychotherapy that can't adapt its methods to new insights will quickly become extinct.
• C) Clients all have the same basic problem and eventually a single psychotherapy will evolve to address it.
• D) No psychotherapy works any better than a placebo or doing nothing at all in terms of treating emotional problems.

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Definitions:

Test Statistic

A measurement derived from sample observations in a hypothesis test, used to determine if the null hypothesis should be discarded.

Population Mean

The average of all the values in a population, representing the central point around which the data points in the population are distributed.

Two-Tailed Test

A statistical test where the significance area is on both ends of the distribution, examining if a sample falls outside a specific value range on either side.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis used in statistics that proposes no significant difference or effect, serving as the default assumption to be tested against an alternative hypothesis.