Chris is picked up by the police for stealing hubcaps, but claims that he is innocent, and it is a case of mistaken identity. He goes on trial, and the judge somberly informs the jury that Chris is innocent until proved guilty. That is, they should find him guilty only if there is overwhelming evidence to reject the assumption of innocence. What risk is involved in the jury making a type-I error

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t