• Complete a simulation-based hypothesis test involving a single proportion

The inspiration for this topic is a TED talk given by Vilayanur Ramachandran in 2007. In this talk, he explains how sound and vision are linked in the human mind, a concept called “synesthesia.” Since humans tend to associate sharp sounds with sharp-looking objects and soft sounds with rounded objects, most of the students will associate the Bumba name with the rounded letter and Kiki with the sharp-edged letter. Obviously, we can’t read “Martian” and these letters are made up, so we want to test the theory of why we might be more likely to associate Bumba with the rounded letter.

Let’s conduct the hypothesis testing by simulating [latex]1,000[/latex] guesses/trials using our statistical software!

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