Should Lonnie Be Allowed to Testify About How Fast the Blue

question 4

Multiple Choice

Should Lonnie be allowed to testify about how fast the blue Ford was driving

• A)Yes, he saw the car drive away.
• B)Yes, he can testify that the car "laid rubber" but he cannot give an estimate of the vehicle's speed.
• C)Yes he can because he sees many cars drive on that driveway every day.
• D)No, only an expert witness can testify about how fast a car was going.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A Confidence Interval is a range of values derived from sample statistics that is likely to contain the true population parameter at a given confidence level.

Population Mean

The average value of a set of characteristics (e.g., measurements, scores) for an entire population, calculated as the sum of all values divided by the number of values.

Confidence Interval

A statistical estimate of the range within which an unknown population parameter lies, calculated to express the certainty of its covering the true value.

Confidence Interval

A series of values, based on sample statistics, presumed to include the unknown value of a population parameter.