While Eating at a Restaurant, You See a Waiter's Serving

question 140

Multiple Choice

While eating at a restaurant, you see a waiter's serving tray tilt and an avalanche of food and beverages splatters on four people. "What a careless, clumsy idiot," you mumble to yourself as you resume eating. You have just committed an attributional bias called:

• A) hindsight bias.
• B) the self-serving bias.
• C) the self-effacing bias.
• D) the fundamental attribution error.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A statistical hypothesis asserting that there is no significant difference or effect.

Critical Value

A threshold value used in hypothesis testing, which the test statistic must exceed in order to reject the null hypothesis.

Obtained Value

The actual value achieved from a statistical test, used to compare against the critical value to determine statistical significance.

Critical Value

A threshold in a statistical test that delineates the boundary for rejecting or not rejecting the null hypothesis.