Although the change decreases statistical power, you can decrease the risk of making a Type I error simply by
A) examining extraneous variables.
B) making your significance i.e., alpha) level smaller
C) adding more dependent variables to your study.
D) adjust your degrees of freedom.
E)g., change it from .05 to .01).

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Making the significance level (alpha) smaller, such as changing it from .05 to .01, directly decreases the risk of making a Type I error, which is falsely rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true.

Although the Change Decreases Statistical Power, You Can Decrease the Risk