Setting the significance level at a very extreme cutoff (such as .001)increases the chances of:
A)getting a significant result
B)rejecting the null hypothesis
C)a Type I error
D)a Type II error

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Setting the significance level at a very extreme cutoff (such as .001) decreases the chances of making a Type I error (incorrectly rejecting a true null hypothesis) but increases the chances of making a Type II error (failing to reject a false null hypothesis), because it makes the criteria for finding significant results more stringent.

Setting the Significance Level at a Very Extreme Cutoff (Such