The article “Analysis of Reserve and Regular Bottlings:Why Pay for a Difference Only the Critics Claim toNotice?” (Chance, Summer 2005, pp. 9–15) reported onan experiment to investigate whether wine tasters coulddistinguish between more expensive reserve wines andtheir regular counterparts. Wine was presented to tastersin four containers labeled A, B, C, and D, with two ofthese containing the reserve wine and the other two theregular wine. Each taster randomly selected three of thecontainers, tasted the selected wines, and indicated whichof the three he/she believed was different from the othertwo. Of the n 5 855 tasting trials, 346 resulted in correctdistinctions (either the one reserve that differed from thetwo regular wines or the one regular wine that differedfrom the two reserves). Does this provide compellingevidence for concluding that tasters of this type have someability to distinguish between reserve and regular wines?State and test the relevant hypotheses. Are you particularlyimpressed with the ability of tasters to distinguishbetween the two types of wine?
The article “Analysis of Reserve and Regular Bottlings:
Why Pay for a Difference Only the Critics Claim to
Notice?” (Chance, Summer 2005, pp. 9–15) reported on
an experiment to investigate whether wine tasters could
distinguish between more expensive reserve wines and
their regular counterparts. Wine was presented to tasters
in four containers labeled A, B, C, and D, with two of
these containing the reserve wine and the other two the
regular wine. Each taster randomly selected three of the
containers, tasted the selected wines, and indicated which
of the three he/she believed was different from the other
two. Of the n 5 855 tasting trials, 346 resulted in correct
distinctions (either the one reserve that differed from the
two regular wines or the one regular wine that differed
from the two reserves). Does this provide compelling
evidence for concluding that tasters of this type have some
ability to distinguish between reserve and regular wines?
State and test the relevant hypotheses. Are you particularly
impressed with the ability of tasters to distinguish
between the two types of wine?
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