You Are the Owner of a Factory That Makes Candy

question 47

Essay

You are the owner of a factory that makes candy bars. One morning, you notice an employee intentionally inserting an insect into a piece of candy. You can't stop the line of production in time, and therefore can't find the piece of candy. It is mixed in with thousands of other pieces. After analyzing the situation, you determine that the negative publicity associated with recalling the candy was not worth the very small risk of a consumer getting ill. You fire the employee, but do not recall the candy. Does your solution align with the utilitarian, moral rights, or justice model of ethics? Describe why.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A statement for a statistical test that proposes there is no effect or no difference, serving as the default assumption to test against.

Alternative Hypothesis

A statistical hypothesis that contradicts the null hypothesis, suggesting there is an effect or a difference.

One-tailed Test

A statistical test where the region of rejection is on only one side of the sampling distribution.

Critical Value

A point on the scale of the test statistic beyond which we reject the null hypothesis; it is a threshold used to determine the critical region for statistical significance testing.