There are four possible outcomes of a researcher's decision to accept or reject the null hypothesis. If a null hypothesis is accepted and it turns out to be the wrong decision, what kind of error has occurred?
A)Type I error
B)Type II error
C)Type III error
D)Power error

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A type II error occurs when null hypothesis is accepted and that turns out to be the wrong decision. In this error, the specific experiment found no statistically significant results, but future experiments do obtain significant results.

There Are Four Possible Outcomes of a Researcher's Decision to Accept