You ______ when your statistic falls in the region of ______ because this means ______.

A) reject the null hypothesis; rejection; p < .05
B) do not reject the null hypothesis; non-rejection; p < .01
C) reject the alternative hypothesis; non-rejection; p < .05
D) reject the null hypothesis; rejection; p > .01

Null Hypothesis

A statement used in statistics that suggests no significant difference or effect exists.

Rejection

In statistical hypothesis testing, the decision to refuse the null hypothesis when it is false.

P < .05

Indicates that the probability of the observed data (or something more extreme) assuming the null hypothesis is true is less than 5%, often used as a threshold for statistical significance.