Question 6.95

6.95 Your role on a team.

You are the statistical expert on a team that is planning a study. After you have made a careful presentation of the mechanics of significance testing, one of the team members suggests using for the study because you would be more likely to obtain statistically signifcant results with this choice. Explain in simple terms why this would not be a good use of statistical methods.

6.95

If , then we would be making a mistake 20% of the time.