Reconsider the previous exercises about the study of whether there is an association between number of Facebook friends and a person’s sex. The p-value for the randomization-based test of whether the average number of Facebook friends men have is different from that of women turns out to be 0.0520.
a. Interpret this p-value in the context of the study.
b. Based on the p-value, what is the strength of evidence against the null hypothesis?

Data from previous exercise

In a survey of introductory statistics students, an instructor asked her students to report how many Facebook friends they had. Suppose that the intent is to study whether there is an association between number of Facebook friends and a person’s sex.