Question

Stella deliberately dropped a wallet at a park with $50. She wanted to observe how many minutes that people take trying to find and contact the owner of the wallet. She hypothesized that peope will spend about 2 minutes, then give up.

a.) What kind of study is this? Justify your answer.

b.) Identify any dependent quasi-independent and/ or independent variables.

c.) What is the best inferential statistic to use? Why?

d.) Is this a between-subjects or within-subjects design?

e.) Is it a one-tailed or two-tailed test?

f.) What is/ are the degrees(s) of freedom for the most appropriate inferential test?

Answer 1

1. This is an observational study. This is because the researcher wants to observe the behaviour of the participants occurring in real world circumstances.

2. The quasi independent variable in the study is the time spent in looking for the contact.

3. The best test to use on this case a correlational study. The researcher can assess if the time spent looking for the owner has any relationship with whether or not the participants contacting the owner. For this study, the point bisexual correlation can be used.

4. This is a within subjects design.

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