6. You go to the pharmacy to get your weekly medication. You notice that there i
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6. You go to the pharmacy to get your weekly medication. You notice that there is a new pharmacist working who appears very young and inexperienced who hands you your weekly medication. The medication is absolutely essential towards keeping you alive and needs to be correct. Given the choice, would you prefer that the pharmacist make a Type I or Type Il error when handing out medication to you? Explain. (Hint: Write out null and alternative hypotheses from the perspective of a pharmacist providing prescriptions).Explanation / Answer
The null and alternative hypotheses are as follows:
H0:medications are correct at best of knowledge and ability.
H1:medications are not correct at best of knowledge and ability.
Type I error refer to incorrect rejection of true null hypothesis and Type II error refer to incorrect retention of false null hypothesis. The consumer wants to get correct medications, thus, pharmacist is supposed to make Type I error, where, pharmacist concludes that medications are not correct at best of knwoledge and ability, when they actually are.
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