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One of the tree planters on your team is a law student. You'vebeen talking to her (from a safe distance) about how the hypothesistesting process works in psychology and, in particular, about theidea of setting an alpha level to .05 (1 in 20). She is appalledand responds: ``If I made an error one time in twenty there wouldbe so many innocent people in jail it would be a major tragedy. Youpsychologists need to clean up your act and set your alpha level tosomething like one in 100,000 or one in a million''. Explain toyour law student teammate why what she's suggesting would be a badidea.

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While performing a hypothesis testing two type of error arise One is type 1 error and another one is type 2 error Usually it is desirable to have a test procedure which having minimum probabilities of these errors    See Answer
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