Despite Its Good Intentions, Privacy Regulations Exposed the Website PatientsLikeMe

question 96

True/False

Despite its good intentions, privacy regulations exposed the website PatientsLikeMe to significant fines and it was eventually forced to shut down.

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Definitions:

Alternative Hypotheses

A statement in hypothesis testing that is accepted if the evidence suggests that the null hypothesis is false.

Null Hypothesis

The default position that there is no association between two measured phenomena, or no difference among groups being compared.

P-Value

The probability of observing test results at least as extreme as the results actually observed, under the assumption that the null hypothesis is true.

Critical Value

A threshold in hypothesis testing that defines the boundary or cutoff point at which the test statistic is considered significant.