The text claims that journals tend to prefer "exciting" findings over "boring" ones.Because of the drive to publish new findings that go against the status quo, the literature is assumed to contain _____ errors.
A) Type I
B) Type II
C) null
D) confirmatory

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The drive to publish new and exciting findings can lead to the publication of false positives, which are considered Type I errors. Type I errors occur when researchers reject a null hypothesis that is actually true. In other words, they claim to have found a statistically significant effect when the effect is actually not real.

The Text Claims That Journals Tend to Prefer "Exciting" Findings