Question

Defective airbags have become a big concern to automobile manufacturers as well as consumers. Consider the given hypothesis test.

• H₀: Airbag deploys on impact correctly
• H_a: Airbag does not deploy on impact correctly

Part 1 of 3

Describe a Type I error and its consequences. Describe a Type II error and its consequences. Which error appears to be more serious?

Answer 1

type I error is rejecting the null hypothesis when it should not be rejected.

so,

type I error is airbag does not deploy on impact correctly when in actual it should be deploy on impact correctly

it may cause serious damage.

type II error is fail to reject fail null hypothesis

type II error is airbag deploys on impact correctly when in actual it should not deploy

so, Type I error is more serious

because when there is actual need of deploy of airbag correctly,airbag does not deploy on impact correctly,that might cause more serious problems.