For the Pearson r, rejecting Ho with an alpha of .05, means that
A) the correlation is not significant
B) there is no possibility that Ho should have been accepted
C) the probability is .95 that Ho should have been accepted
D) the probability is .05 that Ho should have been accepted

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Rejecting the null hypothesis (Ho) with an alpha of .05 means that there is a 5% probability (or less) that the observed results occurred by chance, implying a 95% confidence in the results but still a 5% chance that the null hypothesis was incorrectly rejected.

For the Pearson R, Rejecting Ho with an Alpha of .05