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EPPP Psychology

Category - Research Methods and Statistics

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There are four possible outcomes of a researcher’s decision to accept or reject the null hypothesis. If a null hypothesis is accepted and it turns out to be the wrong decision, what kind of error has occurred?

Type I error
Type II error
Type III error
Power error

Explanation

Answer: B - A type II error occurs when null hypothesis is accepted and that turns out to be the wrong decision. In this error, the specific experiment found no statistically significant results, but future experiments do obtain significant results.

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