Question

researcher examined whether people's responses to injustice depend on whether the offender in a hypothetical scenario is a male or a female and whether the offender apologized (or not) after the offense. Participants were randomly assigned to the gender of the offender condition (female, male) and apology condition (present, absent). Each condition contained an equal number of participants.
Participants read a hypothetical scenario in which a person acted unjustly and the action results in severe harm. Half of the participants read that the offender apologized. Participants then rated the extent to which they would forgive the offender using a 0 (no forgiveness) to 9 (complete forgiveness) rating scale. The researcher predicted that participants' forgiveness would be greater following an apology compared to the apology-absent condition. The researcher also predicted that the gender of the offender would have no effect on forgiveness.

offender gender	Apology Present	Apology Absent
Male	5.0	3.0
Female	8.0	5.0

1.Describe the research design the researcher used, including the type of variables used. [I should see numbers and a description of the type of factorial design (e.g., between-subjects)]

  

2. What are the means for the main effect of the Apology variable? [Be sure to specify which mean belongs with each condition.]

   

3.What are the means for the main effect of the Offender Gender variable? [Be sure to specify which mean belongs with each condition.]

4. Describe what effects might be statistically significant if this researcher computed an analysis of variance.

5.. Did the results support the researcher's predictions? Explain why or why not.  

Answer 1