Okay. So Max is a graduate student who studies human emotion. He noticed a gap in the current literature, so he created a hypothesis, designed and conducted a study to test it, and then analyzed his data. He was excited to find that the data supported his hypothesis, very exciting, and so he immediately began designing a new study to address his next research question. Which step of the scientific method did Max skip? So, it looks like here a is talking about empirically testing his hypothesis, but we know that he did design and conduct a study so a is incorrect.
B is talking about how he did not examine his data through statistical testing, but it does say here that he analyzed his data and we know that psychologists typically use statistics to do that. So, he probably did do some statistical testing there, so b is incorrect. C reads that he did not publish his findings, so they have not been peer-reviewed. And that looks accurate. It looks like he got so excited and caught up in his findings that he immediately began designing a new study and did not submit that first one for the peer-review process.
So, it looks like our answer is going to be c. Just really quickly, d reads that he failed to identify a clear gap in the literature, but we know that he did do that. His research was based on that gap. So our answer here is going to be c, Max did not publish his findings and they have not been peer-reviewed, and that is a very important part of the scientific method in psychology. Alright.
There you go.