Private Prisons Can Often Be Run More Cheaply and Efficiently

question 12

Multiple Choice

Private prisons can often be run more cheaply and efficiently than public prisons because:

• A) their nonunionized staffs receive lower levels of healthcare insurance.
• B) they are part of the government bureaucracy.
• C) they pay significantly lower base salaries to their staffs.
• D) their nonunionized staffs contend with massive amount of paperwork.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that states there is no statistical significance between the two variables in the hypothesis. It posits no effect or no difference as a default stance to be tested against.

Alternative Hypothesis

A statement that contradicts the null hypothesis and proposes that there is a statistically significant relationship between two variables.

Null Hypothesis

A default statement that there is no effect or no difference, often used as a starting assumption in statistical hypothesis testing.

Type I Error

The error that occurs when the null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected, falsely indicating a significant effect.