The researcher calculated the c2 comparing people’s feelings of safety and wheth
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Question
The researcher calculated the c2 comparing people’s feelings of safety and whether they or not they felt the police did a good job. If the null hypotheses are not rejected, which of the following would be the most appropriate conclusion?
a. There is no difference between people who are afraid and if they are satisfied with police.
b. The expected frequencies differed significantly from the observed frequencies.
c. The was a small effect between the expected and observed frequencies.
d. The groups are not all equal to each other.
Explanation / Answer
As the null hypothesis is not rejected, this means that the test is not significant and the test statistic value has a low magnitude, which means that there is no significant relation between the people's feelings of safety and whether they or not they felt the police did a good job. ( low value of chi square test statistic).
Therefore there is onle a small effect between the expected and the observed frequencies. Therefore C is the correct answer here.