An article in an operations management journal recently stated that a formal hypothesis test rejected the hypothesis that mean employee productivity was less than $45.70 per hour in the wood processing industry. Given this conclusion, it is possible that a Type I statistical error was committed.

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A Type I error occurs when the null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected when it is actually true. In this case, rejecting the hypothesis that mean employee productivity was less than $45.70 per hour when it might actually be true constitutes a Type I error.

An Article in an Operations Management Journal Recently Stated That