Occasionally Otoconia in the Vestibular Organs Fall Out of the Dense

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Short Answer

Occasionally otoconia in the vestibular organs fall out of the dense gelatinous matrix that holds them and make contact directly with hair cells. Predict what symptoms you might expect? Look up the disorder Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo and state whether your prediction was accurate.

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Definitions:

Type I Error

A Type I error occurs when a true null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected, often denoted as a false positive in hypothesis testing.

Null Hypothesis

A statement used in statistics that proposes there is no significant difference or effect.

Level of Significance

The threshold at which the null hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis in statistical testing, indicating the probability of making a Type I error.

Type II Error

A Type II Error occurs when a statistical test fails to reject a false null hypothesis, falsely indicating no effect or difference when one exists.