SCENARIO 9-2 a Student Claims That He Can Correctly Identify Whether a Whether

question 104

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 9-2
A student claims that he can correctly identify whether a person is a business major or an agriculture
major by the way the person dresses.Suppose in actuality that if someone is a business major, he can
correctly identify that person as a business major 87% of the time.When a person is an agriculture
major, the student will incorrectly identify that person as a business major 16% of the time.Presented
with one person and asked to identify the major of this person (who is either a business or an
agriculture major) , he considers this to be a hypothesis test with the null hypothesis being that the
person is a business major and the alternative that the person is an agriculture major.
-Referring to Scenario 9-2, what is the value of

• A) 0.13
• B) 0.16
• C) 0.84
• D) 0.87

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Definitions:

Milgram Experiment

A psychological experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s to study obedience to authority, where participants were instructed to administer electric shocks to another person.

Stanford University Prison Experiment

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Generalization

Drawing a conclusion about a certain characteristic of a population based on a sample from it.

Logical Support

The provision of reasons or evidence to justify a claim or argument.