question archive The freshman 15 refers to the urban legend that students gain an average of 15 pounds during their freshman year of college
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of 15 pounds during their freshman year of college. The weights of 100 freshmen at a certain University were observed in August and then re-examined in May. The claim that the mean difference is equal to 15 pounds is tested at a 0.05 significance level. The result is "fail to reject the null hypothesis".
-What do the results suggest?
-What factors could have affected the results?
-How can these results be used to make changes on campus?