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In the US legal system, a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Consider a null hypothesis, , that the defendant is innocent, and an alternative hypothesis, , that the defendant is guilty. A jury has two possible decisions: convict the defendant (reject the null hypothesis) or not convict the defendant (do not reject the null hypothesis). If a jury makes a Type II error, what happened?

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Answer: The person could go free for the error

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