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Question 1
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How can an observational study design lead to faulty conclusions when analyzing the relationship between playing violent video games and aggressive behavior?

Question 2
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What is power in the context of hypothesis testing?

Question 3
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What do we call an incorrect decision to not reject the null hypothesis when it is actually false?

Question 4
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In statistical testing, what does 'power' refer to?

Question 5
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When a significance test leads to a small p-value, which of the following is a correct interpretation?

Question 6
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Why should we be cautious when interpreting correlations in studies analyzing data from social media usage and self-reported happiness levels?

Question 7
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If you increase the significance level (alpha) from 0.05 to 0.10, what happens to the likelihood of making a Type I error?

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Question 8
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In context of testing hypotheses about means where populations are normally distributed but standard deviations are unknown and samples are small, what assumption must be made for proper use of Student's t-distribution?

Question 9
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If an experimenter increases the sample size in a statistical test, which potential testing error is most likely reduced?

Question 10
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What type of error occurs if a statistical test fails to reject a null hypothesis that is actually false?