Paulette encounters the following sentence in a psychology journal article she is reading: "Participants exposed to brief heat stress made more errors on the visual attention task than did participants not exposed to heat stress, p

Question

Paulette encounters the following sentence in a psychology journal article she is reading: "Participants exposed to brief heat stress made more errors on the visual attention task than did participants not exposed to heat stress, p < .05." Paulette can conclude each of the following EXCEPT:
A) The difference between the groups in the number of errors most likely stems from heat stress.
B) There was a significant difference between the groups in the number of errors.
C) The number of errors was much larger in the heat stress group than it was in the other group.
D) There is less than a 5% chance that random coincidence was responsible for the difference between the groups in the number of errors.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The sentence does not provide any information on how much larger the number of errors was in the heat stress group compared to the other group, so it cannot be concluded that the number of errors was "much larger". However, all other answer choices can be concluded based on the sentence provided.

Paulette Encounters the Following Sentence in a Psychology Journal Article