I chose to do the second project titled Naughty or Nice?

this activity was based off of a

research experiment on infants, that took place in 2007. The experiment was to act a scenario

out, with a helper and hinderer toy. The researchers wanted to know if the scenario would

affect what toy the infant would choose to play with. With 14 of the 16 infants choosing the

helper toy, they wanted to know if it was a by chance. With this project it walked you through

different type of tests to help figure out if it was just by chance. In our tests we provided

evidence that it was not just by chance, because of the low probability and the infants were

purposely choosing which one was the most desirable to them.

With the researchers experiment 14 of the 16 chose the helper toy, because of the high

proportion of infants that chose the helper toy, it made me think that it was not just by chance.

To me it made more sense that the helper toy would be picked because it was more desirable

for the infants because it had a positive outcome, where the hinderer toy had a negative

outcome. If we left it to chance to get the 14 out of 16, we would only have a very low chance of

that happening and if we experimented more the results would become more and more evenly

split to 50-50.

To help me solve, we preformed different hypothesis tests and used a coin to get some of

the results, heads representing helper and tail being hinderer. First, we found the probability

of getting 8 of each, then we performed our own experiment by flipping a coin 16 times and

recording the outcomes. After flipping the coin 16 times we repeated that 4 more times and

found out that none of them fell to the extreme. Using a coin flipping website we repeated the

coin flips up to 1000 repetitions, which showed the results getting more and more evened out.

From the website we learned that it was usual to get 14 of 16, the probability was .005.

To conclude, you can prove that there is strong evidence against the null hypothesis.