Assume You Are Taking an Exam and You See That

question 3

Multiple Choice

Assume you are taking an exam and you see that your friend is cheating. Your professor does not notice it. What should you do if you are trustworthy person?

• A) You pretend not to know it.
• B) You tell your professor immediately.
• C) You also cheat the exam because your friend does.
• D) You talk to the friend and advise him or her to confess.

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Definitions:

Significance Level

Significance level, often denoted by alpha, is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true, serving as a threshold for determining statistical significance.

Power of a Test

The probability that a statistical test will correctly reject a false null hypothesis; a measure of a test's ability to detect an effect when there is one.

Null Hypothesis

A statement used in statistics that proposes there is no significant difference or effect, and any observed difference is due to sampling or experimental error.

Probability

A gauge for predicting the chance that an event will happen, expressed in numbers that fall within 0 and 1.