An experimenter conducts an experiment on the effects of a drug to control hallucinations. He declares the results to be "statistically significant," which usually means that

An experimenter conducts an experiment on the effects of a drug to control hallucinations. He declares the results to be "statistically significant," which usually means that

a. even though appropriate statistics were used, no differences could be detected between experimental and control groups.
b. the results have important implications for theory or practice.
c. differences between experimental and control groups of this size occur by chance only 5 times out of 100 (or less).
d. differences between experimental and control groups were so large they could never occur by chance alone.

If the results were statistically significant it usually means the differences between experimental and control groups occur by chance only 5 times out of 100.
If no differences were detected the results would not be significant.
Statistically significant does not necessarily mean that it would be significant enough to use in theories or practices.
If the differences were large they would be more than statistically significant.


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