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A student majoring in psychology designs an experiment to test for extrasensory perception (ESP). In this experiment, a single card is randomly selected from a shuffled deck of cards, and the blindfolded subject must guess the suit (spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs) of the card. The experiment is repeated 50 times (replacing the card and reshuffling the deck each time).

A person with no ESP abilities, that randomly guesses the suit, should be correct 25% of the time. However, if a person has this ability, they should be able to correctly identify the suit more than 25% of the time. In other words, the probability of correctly identifying the suit would be greater than 0.25.

Madam Zorena claims to have ESP and takes the test. She correctly identifies 16 of the 50 cards. Is this sufficient evidence to conclude that she has ESP? Use a 1% level of significance and write out all steps of the hypothesis test.

Suppose Xorax the Magician does possess the ability to correctly identify the unknown card 50% of the time. If the psychology student administered his test to Xorax, what is the probability that he would conclude that Xorax has ESP (that is, would reject H0 – this is the power of the test at = 0.50)? [Hint: restate the rejection region in terms of ˆ , then calculate the probability of rejecting H0 assuming = 0.50]

Suppose the student wanted 90% power to detect someone with Xorax’s abilities. What sample size (number of card reading attempts) should he employ?
A student majoring in psychology designs an experiment to test for extrasensory perception (ESP). In this experiment, a single card is randomly selected from a shuffled deck of cards, and the blindfolded subject must guess the suit (spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs) of the card. The experiment is repeated 50 times (replacing the card and reshuffling the deck each time).

A person with no ESP abilities, that randomly guesses the suit, should be correct 25% of the time. However, if a person has this ability, they should be able to correctly identify the suit more than 25% of the time. In other words, the probability of correctly identifying the suit would be greater than 0.25.

Madam Zorena claims to have ESP and takes the test. She correctly identifies 16 of the 50 cards. Is this sufficient evidence to conclude that she has ESP? Use a 1% level of significance and write out all steps of the hypothesis test.

Suppose Xorax the Magician does possess the ability to correctly identify the unknown card 50% of the time. If the psychology student administered his test to Xorax, what is the probability that he would conclude that Xorax has ESP (that is, would reject H0 – this is the power of the test at = 0.50)? [Hint: restate the rejection region in terms of ˆ , then calculate the probability of rejecting H0 assuming = 0.50]

Suppose the student wanted 90% power to detect someone with Xorax’s abilities. What sample size (number of card reading attempts) should he employ?
A student majoring in psychology designs an experiment to test for extrasensory perception (ESP). In this experiment, a single card is randomly selected from a shuffled deck of cards, and the blindfolded subject must guess the suit (spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs) of the card. The experiment is repeated 50 times (replacing the card and reshuffling the deck each time).

A person with no ESP abilities, that randomly guesses the suit, should be correct 25% of the time. However, if a person has this ability, they should be able to correctly identify the suit more than 25% of the time. In other words, the probability of correctly identifying the suit would be greater than 0.25.

Madam Zorena claims to have ESP and takes the test. She correctly identifies 16 of the 50 cards. Is this sufficient evidence to conclude that she has ESP? Use a 1% level of significance and write out all steps of the hypothesis test.

Suppose Xorax the Magician does possess the ability to correctly identify the unknown card 50% of the time. If the psychology student administered his test to Xorax, what is the probability that he would conclude that Xorax has ESP (that is, would reject H0 – this is the power of the test at = 0.50)? [Hint: restate the rejection region in terms of ˆ , then calculate the probability of rejecting H0 assuming = 0.50]

Suppose the student wanted 90% power to detect someone with Xorax’s abilities. What sample size (number of card reading attempts) should he employ?

Solution

A student majoring in psychology designs an experiment to test for extrasensory perception (ESP). In this experiment, a single card is randomly selected from a shuffled deck of cards, and the blindfolded subject must guess the suit (spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs) of the card. The experiment is repeated 50 times (replacing the card and reshuffling the deck each time).

A person with no ESP abilities, that randomly guesses the suit, should be correct 25% of the time. However, if a person has this ability, they should be able to correctly identify the suit more than 25% of the time. In other words, the probability of correctly identifying the suit would be greater than 0.25.

Madam Zorena claims to have ESP and takes the test. She correctly identifies 16 of the 50 cards. Is this sufficient evidence to conclude that she has ESP? Use a 1% level of significance and write out all steps of the hypothesis test.

Formulating the null and alternatuve hypotheses,          
          
Ho:   p   <=   0.25
Ha:   p   >   0.25
As we see, the hypothesized po =   0.25      
Getting the point estimate of p, p^,          
          
p^ = x / n =    0.32      
          
Getting the standard error of p^, sp,          
          
sp = sqrt[po (1 - po)/n] =    0.061237244      
          
Getting the z statistic,          
          
z = (p^ - po)/sp =    1.143095213      
          
As this is a    1   tailed test, then, getting the p value,  
          
p =    0.126499531      

significance level =    0.01      

As P > 0.01, we FAIL TO REJECT THE NULL HYPOTHESIS.  

Thus, there is no significant evidence that Madam Zorena has ESP. [CONCLUSION]

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 A student majoring in psychology designs an experiment to test for extrasensory perception (ESP). In this experiment, a single card is randomly selected from a
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