A recommendation for the amount of vitamin C that a person should have per day is 75 mg. A researcher believes that the mean dosage per day among vegetarians is greater than 75 and decides to test this claim by randomly sampling 120 vegetarians and computing the mean for the sample. C. What sort of results would you like to see to convince you that the researchers claim is likely to be correct? d.  In this context, what does statistically significant mean?

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A recommendation for the amount of vitamin C that a person should have
per day is 75 mg. A researcher believes that the mean dosage per day
among vegetarians is greater than 75 and decides to test this claim by
randomly sampling 120 vegetarians and computing the mean for the
sample.

C. What sort of results would you like to see to convince you that the
researchers claim is likely to be correct?
d.  In this context, what does statistically significant mean?

 

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