True or false: In designing an experiment, an investigator's only aim is to obtain as wide a confidence interval as possible because the wider the confidence interval, the more likely it is to include the true population mean difference.

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True or false:  In designing an experiment, an investigator's only aim is to obtain as wide a confidence interval as possible because the wider the confidence interval, the more likely it is to include the true population mean difference.

anonymous · Answer

False..?

anonymous · Answer

I mean.. idk but the "only" part in the first sentence makes me say false.

anonymous · Answer

The 2nd part is true though.

anonymous · Answer

Yes, that's what I was thinking too, given the inclusion of the "only"