Let’s say that you have used the IBM SPSS Statistics software package to conduct the Mann–Whitney U test and the Output Viewer indicates a significance level of .358. Which of the following best describes your conclusion?
a. You fail to reject the null hypothesis and must conclude there is no statistically significant difference in the means.
b. The large significance level provides evidence in support of the alternative hypothesis.
c. The large significance level does not permit any firm conclusion regarding the alternative hypothesis.
d. This value informs the user to repeat the test but only after performing a data transformation for both samples.
