If a decision maker is concerned that the chance of making a Type II error is too large, one option that will help reduce the risk is to reduce the significance level.

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Reducing the significance level (alpha) actually increases the chance of making a Type II error (beta), because it makes the criteria for rejecting the null hypothesis more stringent, potentially leading to more failures to reject a false null hypothesis.

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