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What is the purpose of hypothesis testing? Do you see any relevant to hypothesis testing in...

  1. What is the purpose of hypothesis testing?

  1. Do you see any relevant to hypothesis testing in your daily life? This could be school life, personal life, or work life.  

  1. Start with work life and give us a description of 2-3 scenarios where hypothesis testing may be beneficial.  

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Hypothesis testing is used to validate beliefs statistically. It is used to determine whether or not a belief holds merit by testing it on a sample and rejecting it if it doesn't.

Following are some scenarios to test the hypothesis

1. Is the new benefits policy equally accepted by everyone. To test this hypothesis, we can ask a sample of employees across levels to rate the benefits policy and test the equality of means

2. Test to find if dieters lose more wight than those who exercise by finding the means and standard deviation of weight lost by a sample of dieters and a sample of those who exercise

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