Question

You have just read an interesting article titled, “High School Students’ Perceptions of Their Peers.” In the article, the researchers asked 2500 Canadian high school students various questions relating to their perceptions of other students. The average perception of student cool, on a coolness scale from 1 (not cool) to 10 (extremely cool), was 5 with a standard deviation of 1 and normally distributed. You have a theory that high school students who regularly skateboard to school will be perceived as cooler than students in the general population. You survey 10 students regarding their perceptions of skateboarder coolness using the same scale as the researchers in the article. Your results are tabled below:

Student participants	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Skateboarder coolness	5	5	7	7	7	3	5	8	9	10

From the information given above, carry out the 5-steps of hypothesis testing outlined in chapter

6 of your text and/or study notes for unit 4. Hint: You have a sample size of 10! So root 10 might

have to come into play! Note: Be sure to end with a conclusion regarding your retention or

rejection of the null hypothesis

Answer 1