When Conducting an Experiment with 95% Power,failing to Reject the Null

question 54

Multiple Choice

When conducting an experiment with 95% power,failing to reject the null hypothesis means that

• A)there is no difference between the experimental and control populations.
• B)the experiment was poorly conducted.
• C)the null hypothesis is true.
• D)the chance that the data came from populations with a difference larger than that predicted when calculating power is less than 5%.

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