The article Public Acceptability in the UK and the USA of

Last updated: 11/27/2023

The article Public Acceptability in the UK and the USA of Nudging to Reduce Obesity The Example of Reducing Sugar Sweetened Beverages t describes a survey in which each person in a representative sample of 1 082 adult Americans was asked about whether they would find different types of interventions acceptable in an effort to reduce consumption of sugary beverages When asked about a tax on sugary beverages 459 of the people in the sample said they thought that this would be an acceptable intervention These data were used to test Ho p 0 5 versus H p 0 5 and the null hypothesis was rejected a Based on the hypothesis test what can you conclude about the proportion of adult Americans who think that taxing sugary beverages is an acceptable intervention in an effort to reduce consumption of sugary beverages MY NOTES There is not strong evidence that the proportion of adult Americans who think that taxing sugary beverages is an acceptable intervention in an effort to reduce consumption of sugary beverages is less than 0 5 There is not strong evidence that the proportion of adult Americans who think that taxing sugary beverages is an acceptable intervention in an effort to reduce consumption of sugary beverages is more than 0 5 There is strong evidence that the proportion of adult Americans who think that taxing sugary beverages is an acceptable intervention in an effort to reduce consumption of sugary beverages is less than 0 5 O There is strong evidence that the proportion of adult Americans who think that taxing sugary beverages is an acceptable intervention in an effort to reduce consumption of sugary beverages is more than 0 5 There is strong evidence that the proportion of adult Americans who think that taxing sugary beverages is an acceptable intervention in an effort to reduce consumption of sugary beverages is different from 0 5 ET b Is it reasonable to say that the data provide strong support for the alternative hypothesis O Yes No c Is it reasonable to say that the data provide strong evidence against the null hypothesis O Yes No