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Homework Statement
A group of psychologists once measured 77 variables on a sample of schizophrenic people and a sample of people who were not schizophrenic. They compared the two samples using 77 separate significance tests. Two of these tests were significant at the 5% level. Suppose that there is in fact no difference in any of the variables between people who are and people who are not schizophrenic, so that all 77 null hypotheses are true.
A) What is the probability that one specific test shows a difference significant at the 5% level?
B) Why is is not surprising that 2 of the 77 tests were significant at the 5% level?
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The Attempt at a Solution
I know this is a conceptual problem, but that's why I'm not getting it. I can do a problem if there are numbers, but I don't understand the concept of it I guess. If someone could just give me a general direction of where I'm supposed to go/what I'm supposed to do, I think I can get it.