Critique each of the following proposed research plans. Explain any problems with the proposed research and describe how the research plan might be improved. Include a discussion of any additional data that need to be collected and the appropriate statistical techniques for analyzing those data. (a) A researcher wants to determine whether a leading global university is guilty of racial bias in admissions. To determine potential bias, the researcher collects data on the race of all applicants to the university for a given year. The researcher plans to conduct a difference-in-means test to determine whether the proportion of acceptances among Black candidates is systematically different from the proportion of acceptances among other candidates.
Critique each of the following proposed research plans. Explain any problems with the proposed research and describe how the research plan might be improved. Include a discussion of any additional data that need to be collected and the appropriate statistical techniques for analyzing those data. (a) A researcher wants to determine whether a leading global university is guilty of racial bias in admissions. To determine potential bias, the researcher collects data on the race of all applicants to the university for a given year. The researcher plans to conduct a difference-in-means test to determine whether the proportion of acceptances among Black candidates is systematically different from the proportion of acceptances among other candidates.
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