John and Ira Eat Dinner Together After Work

question 51

Multiple Choice

John and Ira eat dinner together after work. Several hours later, each starts to feel nausea and stomach pains. John is a hypochondriac, Ira is not. Most likely

• A) both men will think that the food they ate made them sick.
• B) John will think the food he ate made him sick and Ira will not think anything at all.
• C) John will think that he has stomach cancer and Ira will think the food he ate made him sick.
• D) Ira will think he has stomach cancer and John will think the food he ate made him sick.

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Significant Difference

A statistical assessment that shows that the observed results in a study were unlikely to have occurred by chance.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, typically used to measure the accuracy of sample mean estimates.

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A statistic that measures the dispersion or spread of a set of data points in a population.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points collected in a statistical study.