.The Researcher Should

.The researcher should

A) reduce the alpha level of significance to .025 to form a definite conclusion.
B) accept the null hypothesis of no difference between the experimental and control groups because the probability is so small; thus, the independent variable had no effect.
C) reject the null hypothesis of no difference between the experimental and control groups because the probability is so small; thus, the independent variable had a reliable effect on the dependent variable.
D) neither accept nor reject the null hypothesis of no difference because the probability value of .025 is significantly different than .05.