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Researchers studied the effect of counterinformation on stereotypes, learning about someone who is opposite to what you would expect from the stereotype. They predicted that extreme counterinformation may have a boomerang effect, making the stereotype even stronger. Briefly describe the meaning of these results to a person who has never had a course in statistics.
The bar graph indicates a small effect for the condition. The means for the moderate-stereotype group decrease as the means for the extreme-stereotype group increase, which indicates no effect for the condition. The means for the extreme-stereotype group change by about the same amount. The means for the moderate-stereotype group, which indicates a small effect for the condition, decrease slightly as the means for the extreme-stereotype group increase significantly. This describes the main effect for the stereotype group.
Which statement below best describes the means for the extreme-stereotype group increase? The means for the moderate-stereotype group decrease, which indicates an effect for the stereotype group. The means for the extreme-stereotype group decrease, which indicates an effect for the stereotype group. The means for the moderate-stereotype group are less than the stereotype group, which indicates an effect for the extreme-stereotype group. The means for the moderate-stereotype group and the extreme-stereotype group change by about the same amount, which indicates an effect for both groups.
The means for the moderate-stereotype group and the extreme-stereotype group change by about the same amount, which indicates an effect for both groups.