Examples of False Positive, Normal Dist & Z-score practice

Part 1: Unit 3 may contain material that is new to some students. Help your classmates learn more about these topics by responding to any one of the following:

Provide a real life example where you have encountered the Normal Distribution, or Percentiles.

Provide a real life example where you have encountered a False Positive, or False Negative.

If you don't have a personal real life example of the above, provide an interesting news article, or website on the topic.

Part 2: Suppose the average height of US men is 70 inches with a standard deviation of 5 inches, and the average height of women is 65 inches with a standard deviation of 3.5 inches. What is the z-score for your height relative to your gender? What is the meaning of the associated value from the z-table for your z-score?

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