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Transcribed Image Text:8.38 Speeding and young drivers. Psychologists conducted a
survey of 258 student drivers and their attitudes toward
speeding and reported the results in the British Journal of
Educational Psychology (Vol. 80, 2010). One of the vari-
ables of interest was the response to the question, "Are
you confident that you can resist your friends' persuasion
to drive faster?" Each response was measured on a 7-point
scale, from 1 = "definitely no" to 7 = "definitely yes."
The data were collected 5 months after the students had
attended a safe-driver presentation. The psychologists re-
ported a sample mean response of 4.98 and a sample stan-
dard deviation of 1.62. Suppose it is known that the true
mean response of students who do not attend a safe-driver
presentation is μ = 4.7.
a. Set up the null and alternative hypotheses for test-
ing whether the true mean student-driver response
5 months after a safe-driver presentation is larger
than 4.7.
b. Calculate the test statistic for the hypothesis test.
c. Find the rejection region for the hypothesis test, using
a = .05.
d. State the appropriate conclusion, in the words of the
problem.
e. Do the test results indicate that the safe-driver presen-
tation was effective in helping students feel more con-
fident that they can resist their friends' persuasion to
drive faster? Explain.
f. The distribution of response scores (on a 7-point scale)
for all student drivers is unlikely to be normal. Does
this impact the validity of the hypothesis test? Why or
why not?
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