Lee is a teacher at a local high school who wanted to assess whether or not dogs physically resemble their owners enough for peo
ple to be able to correctly match a dog to their owner better than if just guessing. Lee, who is also a dog owner, showed pictures of two dogs to her class of 16 students. One photo was of the teacher's dog (Yoda) and the other photo was of a dog the teacher had never met. The students were asked to guess which dog was actually the teacher's. If dogs do not physically resemble their owners, the students would get a correct match with probability 0.50. It turned out that 14 of the 16 students correctly picked out the teacher's dog. Does it appear that the population proportion of people who can correctly match a dog to their owner (out of two options) is better than just guessing? The hypotheses to be tested are H0: p = 0.50 versus Ha: p > 0.50, where the parameter p represents the population proportion of all people who can correctly match a dog to their owner (out of two options).