please help In the US legal system, a defendant is presumed innocent until prove

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In the US legal system, a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Consider a null hypothesis, H_0, that the defendant is innocent, and an alternative hypothesis, H_0, that the defendant is guilty. A jury has two possible decisions convict the defendant (reject the null hypothesis) or not convict the defendant (do not reject the null hypothesis). If a jury makes a Type 1 error, what happened? a. They did convict an innocent defendant b. They did not convict a guilty defendant c. They did convict a guilty defendant d They did not convict an innocent defendant

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option a. They did convicting an innocent defendant
A "Type I" error is rejecting the null hypothesis, when it is in fact true. In a court case, it's rejecting a defendant's claim of innocence, when he is in fact innocent --- "convicting an innocent person" is a Type I error.

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