Question

when she was 9 years of ago, a girl did a science fair experiment in which she tested professional touch therapists to see if they could sense her energy field. she flipped a coin to select either her right hand or her left hand, and then she asked the therapists to identify the selected hand by placing their hand just under her hand without seeing it and without touching it. among 246 trials, the touch therapists were correct 105 times. use a 0.10 significance level to test the claim that touch therapists use a method equivalent to random guesses. do the results suggest that touch therapists are effective? let p denote the population proportion of correct hand selections by touch therapists. identify the null and alternative hypotheses to test the claim that touch therapists use a method equivalent to random guesses. ( h_0: p ) ( h_1: p ) (type integers or decimals. do not round.)

Explanation:

Step1: State the null hypothesis

If the method is equivalent to random guesses, the probability of correct selection is \(0.5\) (since there are 2 options - right or left hand). So, \(H_{0}:p = 0.5\)

Step2: State the alternative hypothesis

The alternative hypothesis for a test of whether the method is equivalent to random guesses (a two - tailed test) is \(H_{1}:p
eq0.5\)

Answer:

\(H_{0}:p = 0.5\)
\(H_{1}:p
eq0.5\)