A study asked 500 men who had prostate cancer about their consumption of 50 diff

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A study asked 500 men who had prostate cancer about their consumption of 50 different foods. One of the foods is found to have a statistically significant relationship to prostate cancer. The most likely reason for this is___

A) That the food definitely has a relationship to prostate cancer

B) You would expect to see one significant result when you carry out 50 significance tests.

C) Statistical significance does not imply practical significance

D) There is a third confounding variable contributing to the results

Explanation / Answer

B) You would expect to see one significant result when you carry out 50 significance tests.

In Hypothesis some experiments may give significance results. As multiple sets give diffrent results, we always perform multiple runs for an experiment to reach some conclusion

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