A Professional Basketball Player with a Poor Free Throw Percentage

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A professional basketball player with a poor free throw percentage gets a personal coach to help him increase his percentage.He tells his coach that he has raised his proficiency from 40% to 60%.To see whether the athlete has improved,the coach asks the athlete to take ten shots.He hits 7 out of 10.If the player really can hit 60% now,and it takes at least 7 out of 10 successful shots to convince the coach,what's the power of the test?

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Definitions:

Perceptual Agnosia

A condition in which a person can see objects but cannot recognize them.

Perceptual Inversion

Perceptual Inversion describes a visual phenomenon where an image is seen as upside down or reversed in orientation due to certain manipulation or conditions.

Just Noticeable Difference

The smallest difference in intensity or stimulus strength that a human can detect between two stimuli, also known as the difference threshold.

Decibels

A unit of measurement used to express the intensity of sound, indicating the pressure level of sound waves.