AppliedMultiple choice
A test returns . What does that mean?
- AThere is a 3% chance that the null hypothesis is the true one here
- BIf the null were true, data this extreme arises 3% of the time
- CThere is a 97% chance the effect is real
- DThe effect being measured is small enough to ignore in practice
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