Suppose that you perform a hypothesis test regarding a population mean, and that the evidence does not warrant rejection of the null hypothesis. When formulating the conclusion to the test, why is the phrase " fail to reject the null hypothesis " more accurate than the phrase " accept the null hypothesis " ? Discuss this in no more than 2 paragraphs.

1. Using the Criminal Justice GSS1 dataset ( cjgss1.sav ), test the claim that younger people support making marijuana legal more than older people, by conducting an appropriate statistical test.

State the null and alternative hypotheses. Paste all the necessary tables and give a proper explanation of the output.

Answer the following questions using data about police officers in the tri-state cities of New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut:

1. Test the claim that there is no effective difference in the mean number of cops per 1,000 in the tri-state area (NY, NJ, and CT) using an appropriate statistical test. (This will require you to create a new variable. Paste the syntax/code of the new computation below.)
2. Test the claim that the mean maximum police officer salaries for CT, NY, and NJ cities are the same.

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