An Investigator Repeats the Procedures of Another Researcher's Experiment but Obtains

question 184

Multiple Choice

An investigator repeats the procedures of another researcher's experiment but obtains different results. Scientists would say that the results of the first experiment were not

• A) correlational.
• B) parsimonious.
• C) statistically significant.
• D) replicable.

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