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Dinette is studying employees and examining the relationship between sociopathic

ID: 3208854 • Letter: D

Question

Dinette is studying employees and examining the relationship between sociopathic tendencies and position within the organization (e.g., entry level, management, executive). She hypothesizes that individuals with higher status jobs will also display more sociopathic tendencies. Due to the nature of her survey questions, many people who start the survey never finish it because they are offended. Her final sample size is only n = 20 and she finds no significant relationship even though she knows one exists. Dinette is probably convinced that _____ explains her non-significant findings. Sampling Error Type I Error Type II Error The Standard Error

Explanation / Answer

Answer is b: Type-I ERROR

Since she commits error by rejecting H0 (her null hypothesis) when she knows that it's true.