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Below is a table from the Bazzini et al. (2010) article.    The correlation between beauty and goodness for Aladdin was r = .75 but was not statistically significant. Why was this correlation nonsignificant in the Bazzini study?

  Read Text 2 and answer Questions 6 to 10.   Right-click on the button below to open Text 2 in a new tab. “Lucky Charms Around The World”.

According the National Institute of Mental Health, the following are accurate statements regarding children and mental health issues:

Which of the following is a reason that a researcher might choose a pretest/posttest design?

Dr. Spock advised parents (select multiple answers if you see fit)

Eating disorders are the most deadliest mental disorder?  (written by Alexis H Spring 2020)

Participants completed a self-report conscientiousness scale using response options that ranged from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree).  If a participant marks a “3” for an item that needs to be reverse-scored, what new value you should you assign to the participant?  

The process of statistical hypothesis testing requires the researcher to make a decision about rejecting or failing to reject the null hypothesis. The decision that we make as researchers could be right, or it could be wrong. One wrong decision we could make is if we fail to reject the null hypothesis when we should have rejected the null hypothesis. This type of wrong decision is also known as ___________.

Imagine you calculated the correlation coefficient for the data presented in the figure below, and the result was r = .44. Looking at the figure, how would you know the number you calculated is incorrect?     

Which statement is correct about Japan’s healthcare system?