One of your friends is reading a newspaper article, which notes that, in rats, a positive significant relationship exists between sugar consumption and obesity. the more sugar a rat consumes, the higher its overall body mass. your friend asks you what it means that the results of this experiment were statistically significant. what do you tell him?

The results are not related to chance.

Explanation:

If the results are statistically significant they are related to other factors than chance. The fact that in rats there is a postive relationship between sugar consumption and obesity is not related to chance. So, the more sugar a rat consumes, the higher its overall body mass. The independent variable the sugar a rat consumes, is statistically related to the dependent variable that is its body mass.

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