Post your response to the scenario in which you criticallyevaluate this footnote. As a reader/reviewer, what response wouldyou provide to the authors about this footnote?
Consider the scenario:
A research paper claims a meaningful contribution to theliterature based on finding statistically significant relationshipsbetween predictor and response variables. In the footnotes, you seethe following statement, “given this research was exploratory innature, traditional levels of significance to reject the nullhypotheses were relaxed to the .10 level.