Post a 150- to 225-word (2- to 3-paragraph) explanation of the role of null and alternative hypotheses as well as type I and II errors in situations where people use statistics as evidence.
Find a news story in which the author(s) presents statistics as evidence. Consider the following questions: What is the author(s) trying to prove? In other words, what question is the author(s) trying to answer? What would the null hypothesis be? What would happen if the author(s) rejected the null? What action would the author(s) take? […]