A Statistically Significant Difference Between Two Sample Groups Is NOT

question 48

Multiple Choice

A statistically significant difference between two sample groups is NOT likely to be

• A) a reflection of differences between the populations they represent.
• B) due to chance variation within and between the sample groups.
• C) observed more than 5 percent of the time the groups are compared.
• D) observed when the two groups are very large.

Distinguish between science and pseudoscience.

Understand Goodstein's characteristics of scientific enquiry.

Identify examples of pseudoscience.

Understand the principles for determining the cause of behavior.

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Definitions:

Black and Latino Families

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Ghettoization

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Massey and Denton

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