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To confirm the consensus that psychotherapy is effective in alleviating human suffering, a statistical method called __________ allows researchers to seek patterns across large numbers of studies and draw conclusions that hold up across independent laboratories

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Inferential statistics

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Descriptive statistics describes data (for example, a chart or a simple graph) then inferential statistics allows one make predictions i.e inferences from that data. With inferential statistics, you take data from samples and make conclusions about a population.

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