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The Test: Hypothesis Rising is a video game developed and published by Randumb Studios . It was released on Steam for Microsoft Windows on April 27, 2020. It is the second game that is part of the The Test series .

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The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

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The Test: Hypothesis Rising is the second chapter in a three-part trilogy. The Test series is a social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive into your own psyche and get answers to questions you've kept hidden deep, down inside. Unlock your mind in ways never done before and experience new found knowledge simply by taking, " The Test: Hypothesis Rising ."

In the second chapter of The Test series, the questions get bolder, the stakes get higher, and the results get more specific as we uncover more and more about what makes you... Well... You.

You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test: Hypothesis Rising, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?## Features:

• Short and sweet
• Be a part of history with Player - Developer interaction
• The only series of its kind
• Very atmospheric and psychological
• Sit back, relax, and answer in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths
• Super affordable for a unique experience**

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Summary The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

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The Test: Hypothesis Rising

• Short and sweet
• Be a part of history with Player - Developer interaction
• The only series of its kind
• Very atmospheric and psychological
• Sit back, relax, and answer in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths
• Super affordable for a unique experience

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A hypothesis testing video game.

The Blob Family is a simple game made by Leon Arnott. At heart, it's a game about testing hypotheses and getting the right answer with the least amount of evidence you can.

The mechanics work like so: Balls bounce around the screen randomly and you control a character who needs to avoid them. You can aim the mouse anywhere and activate a sonar. On the right side are rules for how various balls will react to this, and your goal is to figure out which ball is which. As you use the sonar more, the balls speed up, so it becomes more difficult to stay alive, thus giving an incentive to test your hypothesis in as few clicks as possible.

It very nicely illustrates the principle that, to test a hypothesis, you must design tests to falisfy your intuitions rather than to confirm them. For example, in one level, when you use the sonar:

• 1 ball heads toward the center
• 1 ball heads away from the center
• 1 ball heads away from the mouse
• 1 ball heads away from you

I found myself mistakenly clicking in the center of the screen to test hypothesis 1, but this is insufficient. To design the proper tests, you need to keep the mouse out of the center, keep it away from you, and depending on the position of the balls keep it off a straight line from you.

It could also demonstrate the ability of a fast brain to test hypotheses quickly. For many levels, if you could slow time down and set up a very good test, you could solve the problem with a single click. But we humans aren't usually so attentive.

Just thought the LW crowd might enjoy it.

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Recently I've had another of my occasional flings with NetHack (warning: addictive). It strikes me as a great example of a computer game that teaches about probability, inference and hypothesis testing.

I'm assuming this only applies if you aren't using spoilers for NetHack?

I'm using all the spoilers I can find, and still find it a challenging game. Feel free to mock me. :)

A "spoiled" game of NetHack means you have precise numerical values of the upsides and downsides of various actions, e.g. rubbing a magic lamp. Or reading a scroll that you know from a shopkeeper's offer can be one of N scrolls, some of which have beneficial effects and others harmful. That definitely requires probabilistic decision-making - indulge in wishful thinking and you'll die often; play too cautiously (ignoring positive EVs of some actions with nasty downsides) and, well, you'll die often.

I suppose playing it "unspoiled" is even better, as you'd have to infer the frequencies from observation as opposed to having them delivered on a silver platter, as it were.

(ETA May 10th: finally Ascended as a Knight.)

Oh, no, I have no problems with people spoiling themselves for Nethack. That's pretty much the only way to actually win. But if your aim is to improve rationality, rather than to do as well as possible within the game, it might be better to play it unspoiled. After all, Morendil mentioned "hypothesis testing" as something that was taught by Nethack: The spoilt version doesn't really test that.

The spoilt version doesn't really test that.

It teaches the virtue of scholarship.

What I've found that the spoilt version of Nethack tests, more than anything else, is patience. Nethack spoilt isn't about scholarship, really. You don't study. You have a situation, and you look up things that are relevant to that situation. There is a small bit of study at the beginning, generally when you look up stuff like how to begin, what a newbie-friendly class/race is, and how to not die on the second floor.

But really, it's patience. I once did an experiment where players who were relatively new to Nethack were encouraged to spoil themselves as early and often as possible, and request advice frequently from better players. Really, to do anything short of having someone else play the game for you was not only allowed, but actively encouraged. Since I usually put a limiter on how willing I am to spoil myself on roguelikes, I thought this might be fun. (Namely, I'm unwilling to ask for any advice in tactical situations, only strategic ones: Which area should I go to next, instead of "How do I kill this ogre?")

Conventional wisdom for Nethack states that upon reaching the halfway point of the game, you should win from there if you play correctly. I got about three-quarters of the way there, on my third run, having never gotten past the second floor on my runs prior to those three. I died to a misclick, not to lack of knowledge or poor tactics. So, patience is the true virtue of Nethack: It's surprisingly easy to win as long as you spoil yourself, get advice, and don't screw up.

Sadly, the experiment only had the one participant actually try it, namely me, so the evidence shall remain anecdotal.

You can definitely only notice the rationality lessons if you already know them explicitly. I wonder how great the effect is when you're playing the game but don't know about the lessons. My guess: not very great. People can figure it out by instinct. It makes them use the hypothesis-testing skills they already have, not improve them. Most of the difficulty (for me at least) is not in the hypothesis testing, but in multitasking enough to find out what multiple balls do at once, then tracking them all as they bounce around the screen until you can tag them all.

Also, it's a short game, one you're unlikely to spend enough time doing for it to mold you. If you really want to get good at hypothesis testing, I recommend taking up programming. Debugging often stretches my hypothesis testing skills like nothing else I can think of.

I'm not sure about it's rationality testing or improving abilities, but I find it very fun :)

I doubt it will much improve anyone's rationality. It does nicely illustrate a few issues on how science is done, and could be a fun way of explaining for the layman.

Harriet (and xerxes acting like harriet) is bugged to always move away from me (at least when I run the game). I have to beat levels containing her by guessing :P

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Hypothesis Testing | A Step-by-Step Guide with Easy Examples

Published on November 8, 2019 by Rebecca Bevans . Revised on June 22, 2023.

Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics . It is most often used by scientists to test specific predictions, called hypotheses, that arise from theories.

There are 5 main steps in hypothesis testing:

• State your research hypothesis as a null hypothesis and alternate hypothesis (H o ) and (H a  or H 1 ).
• Collect data in a way designed to test the hypothesis.
• Perform an appropriate statistical test .
• Decide whether to reject or fail to reject your null hypothesis.
• Present the findings in your results and discussion section.

Though the specific details might vary, the procedure you will use when testing a hypothesis will always follow some version of these steps.

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Step 1: state your null and alternate hypothesis, step 2: collect data, step 3: perform a statistical test, step 4: decide whether to reject or fail to reject your null hypothesis, step 5: present your findings, other interesting articles, frequently asked questions about hypothesis testing.

After developing your initial research hypothesis (the prediction that you want to investigate), it is important to restate it as a null (H o ) and alternate (H a ) hypothesis so that you can test it mathematically.

The alternate hypothesis is usually your initial hypothesis that predicts a relationship between variables. The null hypothesis is a prediction of no relationship between the variables you are interested in.

• H 0 : Men are, on average, not taller than women. H a : Men are, on average, taller than women.

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For a statistical test to be valid , it is important to perform sampling and collect data in a way that is designed to test your hypothesis. If your data are not representative, then you cannot make statistical inferences about the population you are interested in.

There are a variety of statistical tests available, but they are all based on the comparison of within-group variance (how spread out the data is within a category) versus between-group variance (how different the categories are from one another).

If the between-group variance is large enough that there is little or no overlap between groups, then your statistical test will reflect that by showing a low p -value . This means it is unlikely that the differences between these groups came about by chance.

Alternatively, if there is high within-group variance and low between-group variance, then your statistical test will reflect that with a high p -value. This means it is likely that any difference you measure between groups is due to chance.

Your choice of statistical test will be based on the type of variables and the level of measurement of your collected data .

• an estimate of the difference in average height between the two groups.
• a p -value showing how likely you are to see this difference if the null hypothesis of no difference is true.

Based on the outcome of your statistical test, you will have to decide whether to reject or fail to reject your null hypothesis.

In most cases you will use the p -value generated by your statistical test to guide your decision. And in most cases, your predetermined level of significance for rejecting the null hypothesis will be 0.05 – that is, when there is a less than 5% chance that you would see these results if the null hypothesis were true.

In some cases, researchers choose a more conservative level of significance, such as 0.01 (1%). This minimizes the risk of incorrectly rejecting the null hypothesis ( Type I error ).

The results of hypothesis testing will be presented in the results and discussion sections of your research paper , dissertation or thesis .

In the results section you should give a brief summary of the data and a summary of the results of your statistical test (for example, the estimated difference between group means and associated p -value). In the discussion , you can discuss whether your initial hypothesis was supported by your results or not.

In the formal language of hypothesis testing, we talk about rejecting or failing to reject the null hypothesis. You will probably be asked to do this in your statistics assignments.

However, when presenting research results in academic papers we rarely talk this way. Instead, we go back to our alternate hypothesis (in this case, the hypothesis that men are on average taller than women) and state whether the result of our test did or did not support the alternate hypothesis.

If your null hypothesis was rejected, this result is interpreted as “supported the alternate hypothesis.”

These are superficial differences; you can see that they mean the same thing.

You might notice that we don’t say that we reject or fail to reject the alternate hypothesis . This is because hypothesis testing is not designed to prove or disprove anything. It is only designed to test whether a pattern we measure could have arisen spuriously, or by chance.

If we reject the null hypothesis based on our research (i.e., we find that it is unlikely that the pattern arose by chance), then we can say our test lends support to our hypothesis . But if the pattern does not pass our decision rule, meaning that it could have arisen by chance, then we say the test is inconsistent with our hypothesis .

If you want to know more about statistics , methodology , or research bias , make sure to check out some of our other articles with explanations and examples.

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Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is used by scientists to test specific predictions, called hypotheses , by calculating how likely it is that a pattern or relationship between variables could have arisen by chance.

A hypothesis states your predictions about what your research will find. It is a tentative answer to your research question that has not yet been tested. For some research projects, you might have to write several hypotheses that address different aspects of your research question.

A hypothesis is not just a guess — it should be based on existing theories and knowledge. It also has to be testable, which means you can support or refute it through scientific research methods (such as experiments, observations and statistical analysis of data).

Null and alternative hypotheses are used in statistical hypothesis testing . The null hypothesis of a test always predicts no effect or no relationship between variables, while the alternative hypothesis states your research prediction of an effect or relationship.

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• July 11, 2022

There are some really interesting things being done in the indie horror space , both by western and eastern developers . What’s particularly interesting about a lot of these games is how they manage to do a lot with a little — and The Test series from Randumb Studios is an excellent example of this.

To call The Test and its two sequels “horror games” is, strictly speaking, inaccurate, since all they do is use the trappings of a horror game to lure you in and then do something rather unexpected. But given that a lot of people are likely to jump into The Test on the assumption that it’s going to creep them out in some way, I’d say we can safely include them in a discussion of the genre.

Trouble is, discussing these games in any great detail is quite difficult, because part of their very nature is that they are intended to be personal experiences that enable you to reflect on things in your own unique way. That is the thing that makes these three games — and much of the other work by Randumb Studios — particularly interesting, though, so we’ll do our best not to spoil too much about the experience.

Let’s begin with the first game in the trilogy, simply named The Test . In this game, the screen fades in and you’re in a bloodstained, darkened room lit only by a fireplace, and you’re face-to-face with a character dressed in mystical garb. They inform you that they’re going to ask you a series of questions to which you can answer “yes” or “no”, and from there you might come to understand… something.

The reasoning behind The Test is never given, but it’s clear that Randumb Studios have something in mind for all their work as a grand project — more on that in a moment. There’s definitely some sort of narrative context to what is going on, but it almost doesn’t matter; it doesn’t take long to get thoroughly enraptured by the relentless stream of questions coming your way, and what they might all mean.

The questions are enormously varied, featuring a variety of personal, introspective and humorous situations to ponder. The Test claims to be keeping track of all manner of things in the background, including not only the choices you make but also how much you hesitate over your answers, but the best way to approach the game is simply to let the situation unfold naturally. You are, after all, simply sitting at a computer answering “yes” and “no” questions, so there’s no means of actually being judged by a real person, is there? Of course not.

Upon reaching the conclusion of The Test, your questioner will provide you with an interpretation of your results. This isn’t a particularly scientific (or indeed pseudoscientific) interpretation or anything — no Myers-Briggs personality types here, at least not made explicit — rather, it ends up being the sort of advice you’d get if you’d just poured your heart out to someone you trust. Assuming you answered the questions throughout The Test honestly, you’ll find yourself getting some surprisingly accurate advice that, in many cases, you’ll have already been aware of, but perhaps hadn’t acknowledged or wanted to face up to.

The Test isn’t designed to make you feel bad; that much is very clear, despite its horror game trappings. Instead, it seemingly seeks to provide affirmations and appreciation of your positive qualities, while gently encouraging you to confidently and fearlessly pay attention to your own flaws. We all have flaws, after all; it’s how we deal with them that helps define us as a person.

At the conclusion of The Test, you’re provided with a “secret word” that you’re supposed to keep a note of. Randumb Studios encourage everyone to share their word in the comments and reviews on the game, as supposedly this will help inform their future projects in some way. Their grand ambition is for players to be able to take their secret words from all their choice-based games, not just The Test trilogy, and plug them into an upcoming RPG called Chasing Demons, with the story, characters and game world being affected in some way by those words.

It’s a very ambitious idea, for sure, and it remains to be seen if Randumb Studios will be able to pull it off — but even if they don’t, The Test certainly makes for a fascinating experience, and it’s hard not to jump right into the subsequent game, The Test: Hypothesis Rising immediately afterwards.

This game follows the same format, only this time you’re faced with a different character. This time, they are named as “Fate”. The horror angle is played up considerably in this one, with a deliberately stylised “bloody” font and occasional mild visual jumpscares — though for those of a nervous disposition, these aren’t accompanied by the usual loud noises, so are just mildly unsettling rather than outright terrifying.

Like his precursor, Fate asks you a series of questions, initially expecting “yes” or “no” answers but subsequently moving onto hypothetical “would you rather” kinds of situations. Once again, there’s a mix of the superficial, personal, introspective and humorous — and again, there’s the feeling that the game itself is “watching” you to a certain degree, tailoring its questions and situations to your responses.

Fate comes across as an oddly likeable character prone to sarcastic quips in The Test: Hypothesis Rising, though there are times when you might question whether you’re actually hearing Fate themselves talk, or if the author is addressing you directly. If you’ve come directly from the first The Test, as the game recommends you do, there are a number of amusing callbacks along the way that will put a smile on your face and help set you at ease in this rather unusual situation.

Once again, when the questioning ends, Fate will provide you with a rundown of their interpretations of your answers. Depending on how you responded, your results may be similar or different to how The Test concluded for you — and the game makes it clear that neither way or the other is “correct”. If you happen to get a similar response, that’s something which must be true; if you get a different response, it’s a sign that you have a number of layers to your personality that are worth exploring.

Finally, The Test: Final Revelation puts you face-to-face with Destiny, who has an annoying habit of speaking in arrhythmic rhyme when trying to be dramatic, but who changes cadence considerably once he starts interrogating you much like your two predecessors. This time around, Destiny is set up to feel almost antagonistic in nature, seeking to bleed your soul dry of the truths hidden within — but once again, once you find yourself getting involved in answering the questions, it’s hard not to feel like the game is encouraging you rather than judging you.

The twist this time around is that you’re presented with a number of picture-themed questions where you’re encouraged to think about the emotion that the image suggests, as well as picking one of several titles for the picture in question. Honestly, this sequence felt like it dragged a bit in comparison to the rest of the series, and the more specific questions about hypothetical situations were much more interesting and enjoyable to ponder — but interpreting abstract images is an interesting and important part of psychology also, so it was probably worth including as yet another means of analysing player responses.

The Test: Final Revelation concludes with a narrative sequence that is clearly intended to be a teaser for the aforementioned Chasing Demons, featuring Choice (the previously unnamed character from The Test), Fate and Destiny having a bit of an altercation. Although we’ve encountered all three of these characters in The Test trilogy as a whole, this sequence feels a tad out of place, and while it certainly provides a bit of intrigue for Chasing Demons, it feels like it would probably have been better to leave it out, since it doesn’t really “explain” anything as such.

Likewise, the somewhat extensive message from the developers — including some slightly over-the-top gushing towards YouTuber Markiplier, who featured the series on his channel at some point — feels like it would have perhaps been better served as a blog or forum post, but it ultimately doesn’t matter too much. The three The Test games are designed in such a way to make you receptive and understanding towards such messages, so in some ways it perhaps makes sense to include messages like this as part of the game itself.

The Test is a fascinating series that is well worth experiencing; each individual entry is less than £2 and takes maybe 30-45 minutes to work your way through, depending on how quickly you answer the questions. The final results you get from each game are thought-provoking and worth reflecting on even if you have no intention of moving on to plug your secret words into Randumb Studios’ other games, and this idea of “video game as therapy” is definitely a solid one that is probably worth exploring further.

Just remember to be honest throughout; I can’t help but feel like the impact of these games would be significantly diminished if you played them in an attempt to somehow “optimise” your results. Ultimately you’re only betraying yourself if you do that — while the games certainly do interpret your responses in ways that seem surprisingly accurate, at no point will you feel judged , so answer with confidence, even on the more difficult questions that you might not feel terribly comfortable speaking frankly about.

Yes, even the one about punching a nun.

Oh, and if you were wondering, my results were Chaos, Discover and Self-Love.

The Test trilogy is available now on Steam .

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Lab 7 – Hypothesis Testing

Introduction.

This lab is intended to serve as an introduction to hypothesis testing. Where available, we will use built-in functions in R to find and report p-values. In particular, we will investigate the finding of p-values for proportions, differences in proportions, odds ratios, means, and differences of means

Hypothesis Testing

Testing proportions.

While we are able to use our normality assumptions in constructing confidence intervals and p-values for single proportions, we are also able to compute them exactly using the theoretical properties of a true distribution. That is, while counting the number of heads in successive coin flips will become approximately normal as the number of flips increases, we can also utilize the fact that coin flipping follows a binomial distribution . As such, we can use an exact binomial to compute our confidence intervals and p-values rather than relying a normal approximations. This is done with the R function binom.test() . This function takes several arugments which you can learn more about with ?binom.test .

For now, let’s consider again the Johns Hopkins study that found 31 of 39 infants born preterm survived to 6 months. Here, we are wanting to check the hypothesis \(H_0: p_0 = 0.7\) . To do this, we will use binom.test() with the arguments:

• x – the number of “successes” we observed
• n – the total number of observations
• p – our hypothesized proportion

The function will print out a litany of useful information

First, observed the bottom line, “probability of success” which is simply our observed test statistic, \(\hat{p} = 31/39\) . Note, however, that the \(p\) -value found here is not the same as what we found in the slides. This is a consequence of the fact that here we are utilizing assumptions from the binomial distribution rather than our normal approximation.

Just as the \(p\) -values change, so too do our confidence intervals. For example, in our slides Wednesday we found a 95% confidence interval to be (0.668, 0.922), while here they are slightly different, being (0.635, 0.907).

It is worth noting that we can also use binom.test() for the construction of confidence intervals. By default, the interval printed out is 95%, but we could just as well find an 80% confidence interval using the argument conf.level

Question 1: We see above that changing our confidence interval to 80% from 95% changed the interval, but not the resulting p-value. Why is this the case?

Question 2: You might also notice that the confidence interval we found using binom.test() is no longer symmetric around the estimate \(\hat{p}\) . Why is this the case?

Question 3: There is an intimate relationship between p-values and confidence intervals in that the exact same attributes of our sample data are used to construct each. Presented below are two scenarios:

• We flipped a coin 5 times and it landed on head 4 times
• We flipped a coin 50 times and it landed on head 40 times

Using the binom.test() function, create 95% confidence intervals and construct a \(p\) -value for the null hypothesis \(p_0 = 0.5\) . Then answer the following:

• What is our estimate of \(\hat{p}\) for each of these scenarios?
• What changed in our \(p\) -values and confidence intervals?
• Which of these scenarios provides more evidence against the null hypothesis? Why?

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The Test: Hypothesis Rising

by Snowangel · Published January 25, 2022 · Updated May 2, 2022

The Test: Hypothesis Rising is the second chapter in a three-part trilogy.

The Test series is a social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive into your own psyche and get answers to questions you’ve kept hidden deep, down inside. Unlock your mind in ways never done before and experience new found knowledge simply by taking, “The Test: Hypothesis Rising.”

In the second chapter of The Test series, the questions get bolder, the stakes get higher, and the results get more specific as we uncover more and more about what makes you… Well… You.

You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test: Hypothesis Rising, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

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