We are most likely to reject a null hypothesis if the test statistic we compute is
A) very small.
B) quite extreme.
C) what we would expect if the null hypothesis were true.
D) equal to the number of observations in the sample.

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When the test statistic is quite extreme, it indicates that the observed data is unlikely to have occurred by chance alone assuming the null hypothesis is true. This leads to rejecting the null hypothesis in favor of the alternative hypothesis.

We Are Most Likely to Reject a Null Hypothesis If