What Effect Would Drinking Salt Water Have on a Human

question 7

Multiple Choice

What effect would drinking salt water have on a human?

• A) Dehydration as the extra salt pulls water out of the blood into the urine.
• B) Dehydration as the extra salt pulls water out of the urine into the blood.
• C) Increased hydration as the extra salt in the blood pulls water out of tissues.
• D) Increased hydration as the extra salt in the urine pulls water out of tissues.
• E) Dehydration as salt in the intestines pulls water out of the urine.

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Definitions:

Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the strength of a phenomenon or the magnitude of a relationship between variables.

Cohen

Often refers to statistical power analysis methods or effect size measures designed by Jacob Cohen, used in hypothesis testing.

Alpha

A threshold value used in hypothesis testing that determines the level of significance, often set at 0.05.

Type I Error

A Type I error occurs in hypothesis testing when a true null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected, falsely indicating a significant effect or difference when there is none.