Suppose researchers tell you that they did not find a statistically significant relationship between two variables, and the p-value was .84.Which of the following must be true?
A)The sample size must have been small.
B)There must not be a relationship in the population.
C)There must not have been a relationship observed in their sample.
D)None of the above.

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A p-value of .84 simply means that the observed data are very consistent with the null hypothesis, indicating that any difference or relationship observed in the sample is likely due to chance. It does not necessarily imply anything about the sample size (A), nor does it definitively prove the absence of a relationship in the population (B). It also does not mean that no relationship was observed in the sample; a relationship might have been observed, but it was not statistically significant (C).

Suppose Researchers Tell You That They Did Not Find a Statistically