If Psychologists Want to Draw Statistical Conclusions That Go Beyond

question 59

Short Answer

If psychologists want to draw statistical conclusions that go beyond the numbers actually collected in a research study,they will use __________.

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Definitions:

Extrasensory Perception

A claimed ability to gain information through means other than the known human senses, including telepathy and clairvoyance.

Random Trial

A type of experiment where outcomes are determined entirely by chance, eliminating any bias from the experimenters.

Confidence Interval

An interval of values, calculated from statistics of a sample, which probably encloses an unidentified population parameter.

Standard Error

An estimate of the variability or precision of a sample mean (or other estimate) as an estimate of the population mean.