In: Statistics and Probability
A sociologist studied random samples of full-time employees in
a particular occupation – six women and...
- A sociologist studied random samples of full-time employees in
a particular occupation – six women and six men – to determine
whether gender has an influence on the average (mean) number of
hours worked per day. She obtained the following results:
Women
Men
10
12
9
9
7
8
4
10
9
11
6
7
Use a .01 alpha level to test whether
there is a gender difference in the mean number of hours worked,
and answer the following questions:
- Is this a one-tailed or two tailed test? How do you know?
- What is the critical value of the test statistic?
- What is the obtained value of the test statistic?
- What decision about the null hypothesis does your test lead
to?
- What does this indicate about gender differences in hours
worked among the population working in this occupation?
- Would your decision be different if you used an alpha level of
.05? Explain.