Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men? The accompanying table gives results from a study of the words spoken in a day by men and women, and the original data are in Data Set 17 in Appendix B (based on “Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men?” by Mehl et al., Science, Vol. 317, No. 5834). Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that the mean number of words spoken in a day by men is less than that for women.  Use Test statistic t = 0.676.   Write your original Claim Reject or fail to reject the original claim.   Men                        Women n1 = 186                n2 = 210 mean  = 15668.5   mean = 16215.0 S = 8632.5              S = 7301.2

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Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men? The accompanying table gives results from a study of the words spoken in a day by men and women, and the original data are in Data Set 17 in Appendix B (based on “Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men?” by Mehl et al., Science, Vol. 317, No. 5834). Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that the mean number of words spoken in a day by men is less than that for women.  Use Test statistic t = 0.676.

 

Write your original Claim Reject or fail to reject the original claim.

 

Men                        Women

n1 = 186                n2 = 210

mean  = 15668.5   mean = 16215.0

S = 8632.5              S = 7301.2

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