John wants to know if people of the Maasai tribe are taller than people in general. He conducts a study and concludes that Maasai people are as tall as people in general, even though they are actually taller than people in general. John ____. made a Type I error made a Type II error correctly rejected the null hypothesis correctly failed to reject the null hypothesis
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