Hypothesis Testing

There are strengths and weaknesses associated with the hypothesis testing procedure.

• "It is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts."Dave Zirin,Brazil's Dance With the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy(2014)
• "We may at once admit that any inference from the particular to the general must be attended with some degree of uncertainty, but this is not the same as to admit that such inference cannot be absolutely rigorous, for the nature and degree of the uncertainty may itself be capable of rigorous expression."Sir Ronald Fisher
• "Your relevance as a data custodian is your ability to analyze and interpret it. If you can't, your replacement is due."Wisdom Kwashie Mensah

Based on the above quotes

• Summarize your two most important take-aways from the quotations listed.
• Discuss why hypothesis testing is important in research.
• Provide an example of a real-world use for hypothesis testing; your example can be based on your professional or personal experience or it can be hypothetical.