Ethan once heard that wearing colorful socks helped release your positive energy toward others.Being the scientist that he is, he decided to put the claim to the test by running a well-designed study.He had 18 people wear colorful socks and another 18 people wear white socks.After carefully designing, collecting, and analyzing his data, he found no differences between the groups that he studied.What conclusion should he make?
A) Fail to reject the null hypothesis and conclude that colorful socks do not help release your positive energy toward others.
B) Fail to reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the effect of colorful socks is not measureable.
C) Fail to reject the null hypothesis and conclude that, based on this study, he did not observe an effect for colorful socks.
D) Reject the null hypothesis and conclude that colorful socks may benefit positive energy.

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Since there were no differences found between the two groups, Ethan should fail to reject the null hypothesis and conclude that, based on this study, he did not observe an effect for colorful socks. It's important to note that failing to reject the null hypothesis does not mean that the alternate hypothesis (colorful socks do help release positive energy) is necessarily false, but rather that there was not enough evidence to support it in this particular study.

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