The Ericsson method is one of several methods claimed to increase the likelihood of a baby girl. In a clinicaltrial, results could be analyzed with a formal hypothesis test with the alternative hypothesis of p>0.5, which corresponds to the claim that the method increases the likelihood of having agirl, so that the proportion of girls is greater than 0.5. If you have an interest in establishing the success of themethod, which of the followingP-values would youprefer: 0.999,0.5, 0.95,0.05, 0.01,0.001? Why?

TheP-value of

0.001

0.05

0.999

0.5

0.95

0.01

is preferred because it corresponds to the sample evidence that most strongly supports the null or alternative hypothesis that the method is not or is effective