A Researcher's Theory That Teaching the Alphabet Backwards Shortens the Time

question 2

Multiple Choice

A researcher's theory that teaching the alphabet backwards shortens the time to learn letters was not found to be statistically significant.It could be that

• A) this method of teaching letters is not helpful.
• B) the method of teaching letters is helpful but there were problems with the design of the study.
• C) the method of teaching letters is helpful but the design lacked the power to reject the false null hypothesis.
• D) All of these are true.
• E) None of these is true.

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