Type I and Type II Errors
September 23rd, 2022
In the last few years, an organization has conducted 200 clinical trials to test the effectiveness of anti-anxiety drugs. Suppose, however, that all of those drugs were obtained from the same fraudulent supplier, which was later revealed to have been sending only inert substances (e.g., distilled water, sugar pills) instead of real drugs. If alpha = .05 was used for all hypothesis tests, how many of these 200 experiments would you expect to yield significant results? How many Type I errors would you expect? How many Type II errors would you expect?