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Sonia Sanchez
Julie Humphreys
Math 1040
7 December 2016
Tagging Penguins
Are metal bands used for tagging harmful to penguins or not? Researchers decided to
investigate whether putting these metal bands was harmful/fatal to the penguins. To see if the
metal bands are harmful, a sample of twenty penguins was taken. These penguins already had
been tagged with RFID chips, but only ten of those received a metal band on their flipper in
addition to the RFID chip. We then performed a simulation assuming that that band does not
affect the penguins. We also assumed that the nine penguins who survived would have survived
with or without the metal band.
The proportion of our 1000 simulated in which the results are at least as extreme as the
actual study (0.3) , was 168/1000 (0.1680). Our simulated p-value was not small enough to
consider the observed difference in proportions (0.30) or more, to be surprising. We failed to
reject the null hypothesis which states that the band does not affect the penguins because the pvalue was such a high number. There is not enough evidence to support that the metal band ia
influencing the penguins health. It would not be appropriate to say this experiment provides
strong evidence that the metal band has no effect on the penguins health. The reason for this is
due to the small sample size. In order to have a better experiment, the sample size would have to
be larger. I learned that you need to have enough data to be able to have a stronger experiment. I

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also learned to not believe everything I hear, it is important to see statistical evidence to help
form a null and alternative hypothesis.