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The question was: If a true null hypothesis is rejected less than 0.05 of the time then the significance test is

Your Answer: conservaitve

Answer and explanation: Your answer is incorrect. The correct answer is conservative.
If a true null hypothesis is rejected less than .05 of the time, that is if a Type I error is made less than 5% of the time, then the significance test is conservative becuase as stated above statistically the rate is less than .05 when the .05 level is used.
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