What do tests of significance provide?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: An objective standard for a significant difference that determines if chance (or sampling variation) is the likely explanation for the discrepancy between a sample test result and the corresponding null hypothesis.
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a) anger, surprise, distress and then guilt b) distress, happiness, surprise and then fear c) fear, anger, pleasure and then distress d) anger, fear, distress and then pleasure
Phillipe Pinel
A) believed that mental illness was purely a physiological phenomena, and could only be treated by physical means such as bloodletting. B) believed that mental illness was due to possession by demons and exorcism was the only useful treatment. C) believed that mental patients were ill and needed to be treated as such—with kindness and caring. D) believed that mental patients needed to choose rationality over insanity, so treatment was aimed at making their lives as patients uncomfortable.