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In an Effort to Impress Her Physiology Instructor, Your Roommate

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In an effort to impress her physiology instructor, your roommate did an Internet search on cortisol.In her exuberance, she failed to read the book chapter, the instructor has not yet lectured on this chapter, and frankly she knows next to nothing about this hormone.She discovers such seemingly unrelated therapeutic effects as treatment for bee stings and rejection of transplanted organs.You, however, completed your physiology course last semester, and she turns to you for enlightenment.What can you tell her about some other therapeutic uses for cortisol, and what functional connections do these illustrate? What are some of the negative side effects?


Definitions:

Type I Error

The mistake of rejecting a true null hypothesis in hypothesis testing, also known as a "false positive."

Type II Error

A statistical error that occurs when a false null hypothesis is not rejected, indicating a false negative finding in testing.

Null Hypothesis

A statement in statistics that proposes there is no significant difference or effect, often tested against an alternative hypothesis.

Alternative Hypothesis

A statement that contradicts the null hypothesis, suggesting that there is a significant difference or effect in a population parameter.

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