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What are the steps listed in my One Sample Hypothesis Testing Lecture for formal hypothesis testing? Explain why the sequence is important. What might happen if the hypothesis test is performed before the researcher has decided on the significance level? What is the difference between statistical significance and practical significance? Can a hypothesis test result be statistically significant and yet practically useless.

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