A Retained Null Hypothesis Might Legitimately Be Interpreted as a Lack

question 14

Multiple Choice

A retained null hypothesis might legitimately be interpreted as a lack of relationship between variables when

• A) one has studied a small population and all members have been included.
• B) the researcher can show that the study is free of any internal validity problems.
• C) the study had sufficient power to reject the null hypothesis with a relatively small effect size.
• D) All of these are true.

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