SOC SCI 10B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Null Hypothesis, Technology In Revelation Space, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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There is a null hypothesis that contains an equal sign. The alternate hypothesis is what the researcher wants to prove. The sampling distribution is always estimated assuming that the null hypothesis is true. If p is less than . 01 we can reject the null. But if p is greater than . 01 we fail to reject the null. 13. 2 errors: we cannot test every person in a population which is why we have an error. If the alternate hypothesis is not true we. Reject the null hypothesis that we have made a type 1 error. Fail to reject the null hypothesis we have correctly failed to reject. Id the alternate hypothesis is true we: reject the null, then we have correctly rejected the null. Fail to reject the null we have made a type 2 error. Falsely claiming you have proved something that you actually have not is one of the worst kind of errors in scienti c studies.
