- Scenario I: Your friend is an Applied
Mathematics major and you believe that students who have this major
have lower social skills than other college students. You get a
nationally normed social skills scale (m =15.00= sx =
7.00) and get 100 Applied Mathematics majors to complete it. You
obtain the following, M = 13.24, SD = 6.35. Test
whether Applied Mathematics majors have lower social skills than
other adults.
- What are the hypotheses for the study?
- Ho :
- Null hypothesis
- Ha :
- Alternative hypothesis
- Calculate the following:
- zobt
- Should you reject or retain the null hypothesis? Is the test
significant or not? Conclusion?
Scenario II: A social psychologist
believes women are better tippers than men. Over the
span of a few days, she observes male and female patron’s picking
up lunch orders that cost between 20-25 dollars. She then records
how much money each individual tips. The data is presented in Table
1 below. She wants to test her hypothesis that women leave larger
tips than men.
Women
Tips: M = 4.25, sx2 = 3.50,
n = 15
Men
Tips: M = 3.00, sx2 = 2.75,
n = 15
- What is the independent variable in this study? What is the
treatment condition (or experimental group) and what is the control
group?
- What is the dependent variable in this study?
- What is the Null Hypothesis for this study?
- What is the Alternative Hypothesis for this study?
- Calculate the degrees of freedom and the tcrit
- What is the tobt value (use a separate sheet of
paper if needed)?
- What is your decision? Is the test significant or not
significant? What is the conclusion?