Today's example is the context. The exam boards seem intent on introducing 'context' (The bane of my life in statistics - I always lose at least one mark for not putting something into context). Sometimes though, you have to wonder why they picked the examples they did. Did they run out of everything else?! Here is a lovely example of a pretty stupid context.
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How is this a 'real life' context? It's all well and good to say the weather report is rubbish but recording every forecast for a month and then using a hypothesis test to prove a point is a little extreme for most of us!
Maybe I shouldn't point this out to the exam board during the paper tomorrow though...
Good luck to anyone doing any exams (and is reading some obscure, rambling post instead of revising!)
P.S. I did actually answer the question in the end. Just in case you were interested, 'there is evidence to suggest David's claim is wrong'. Glad he wasted a month of his life for nothing then :P
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