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How do ethics affect the level of significance when performing business hypothesis testing.

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This posting looks at how your level of significance (alpha level), can be an issue when looking at the ethical implications of your research.

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When you conduct business hypothesis testing, you are trying to see if there is a significant difference that exists between groups. For example, you want to see if business training makes sales people sell more product. So you set up 2 groups, and you send one to business training and the other gets no training. Then you see how many sells each group makes on average.

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