The Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1, Problem 13CQ
Suppose that a friend states the hypothesis that the color of socks that he wears on a given day, brown or black, will determine whether the stock market will go up or down. He can cite several instances in which this hypothesis has been apparently verified. How would you go about evaluating this hypothesis?
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