Question

You’re stuck in your apartment during quarantine and have set out five birdfeeders to keep you company while you eat your hoarded rice and beans. Each feeder is a different color, and you’re wondering if your favorite bird (the King of Saxony Bird-of-Paradise, look it up) seems to have a color preference. So, you set up a study. You monitor visits to each of the feeders one day. Each day the feeders are refilled. You get the following number of visits on for each trial:

Color	Red	Blue	Green	Purple	White
Visits	8	16	12	15	4

a) What is the most appropriate statistical test for your question?

b) What is the null hypothesis?

c) Run the test from (a) and report a p-value.

d) What is that p-value telling you exactly?

Answer 1