The Process of Using the Consensus of Expert Judges Collected

question 84

Multiple Choice

The process of using the consensus of expert judges collected by letter or e-mail to make decisions is known as:

• A) the electronic meeting system.
• B) the nominal group technique.
• C) the Delphi technique.
• D) the Stepladder technique.

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Definitions:

Critical Value

A threshold in a statistical test that defines the boundary for deciding whether an observed statistic is extreme enough to reject the null hypothesis.

Alpha

A threshold value used in hypothesis testing to determine the significance level at which the null hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis.

Non-directional Hypothesis

A hypothesis that does not predict the specific direction of the difference or relationship, only that one exists.

T-statistic

A statistic calculated from sample data used to assess the plausibility of the null hypothesis in t-tests.