You are a member of a research team that is about to begin research on the effectiveness of a drug called Relax on the symptoms of anxiety. One of the researchers asks you to describe the null hypothesis for this study. What will you say?

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The null hypothesis for this study is that there is no difference between the effects of the drug and no treatment on the symptoms of anxiety. This means that the drug does not have a significant effect on anxiety symptoms, and any observed differences between the experimental and control groups can be attributed to chance. Option B is incorrect because it describes a characteristic of the dependent variable, not the null hypothesis. Option C is also incorrect because blinding is a methodological consideration, not a part of the null hypothesis. Option D is irrelevant to the research question and not related to the null hypothesis.

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