A researcher interested in the effects of humor on memory plans to randomly assi

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A researcher interested in the effects of humor on memory plans to randomly assign participants to either the humor group or the no-humor group. The humor group will read humorous sentences and the no-humor group will read non-humorous sentences. On a subsequent memory test, the researcher believes she will find that the humor group has better memory than the no-humor group. She believes that the difference might be around d = 0.3, which would lead to a p level equal to 0.06 (not significant). What might you recommend that this researcher do?

Explanation / Answer

The p value is not less than alpha=0.05. This implies that the test is indignificant. The researcher should think of considering more samples to get a better significant result.

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