Imagine you are a journal editor. Researchers send you their manuscripts and your job is to make sure their results merit sharing with others in the published psychological community. Which of the following studies would you LEAST want to publish?
A) an experiment examining the effect of vitamin C on eye sight, p = .10
B) a study on the influence of aspartame on cancer risk, p = .001
C) an experiment on the impact of color on aggression, p = .05
D) an investigation of peer pressure on tobacco use, p = .01

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A) The p-value of .10 suggests that the results are not statistically significant, meaning there is a high probability that any observed effect could be due to chance. This makes it less compelling for publication compared to the other studies with lower p-values, indicating stronger evidence against the null hypothesis.

Imagine You Are a Journal Editor