Multiple Choice
An experiment is conducted to test the effectiveness of a social work intervention.The experimental group improves more than does the control group,but the results are not statistically significant.This means that
A) the intervention was not effective.
B) the intervention was effective, but not at a significant level.
C) we cannot rule out sampling error in inferring about the effectiveness of the intervention.
D) the sample size was too large.
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