Why Did It Take So Long at Penn State for the Conduct

question 89

Multiple Choice

Why did it take so long at Penn State for the conduct of Jerry Sandusky to emerge?

• A) Because Jerry Sandusky was not doing anything illegal
• B) Because state government moves so slowly
• C) Because of the culture of Penn State
• D) It did not take a long time - it was reported and acted on immediately

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

a statistical hypothesis that assumes no effect or no difference between phenomena or populations.

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A threshold in statistical analysis that measures the probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis; commonly set at values like 0.05 or 0.01.

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Null Hypothesis

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