Question

Now we are testing to see whether taking a vitamin supplement each day has significant health benefits. There are no (known) harmful side effects of the supplement.
What does it mean in context to make a type I error in this situation?

Answer 1

Answer:

Concluding that people should take vitamin supplement each day when they don't help.            

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given the following in the question:

Hypothesis:

Taking a vitamin supplement each day has significant health benefits and does not have any harmful side effects.

Null hypothesis:

Taking a vitamin supplement each day does not have have significant health benefits.

Alternate hypothesis:

Taking a vitamin supplement each day have have significant health benefits.

Type I error:

• It the error of rejecting the a true null hypothesis.

So error I for this situation would be concluding that people should take vitamin supplement each day when they don't help.