A study was published that suggested a new medication was an effective treatment for a disease. Follow-up research with much larger samples failed to confirm this original result. This follow-up research suggested that the small sample size in the first study may have unfairly biased the results to show an effect of the medication when, in reality, none existed. If this is true, then the results of the first study demonstrate ____________. Question 29 options: 1) a type I error 2) a type II error 3) the null hypothesis 4) the alternative hypothesis