Classify each description as either an observational study or an experiment. A scientist seeks to test the ability of a new glove to retain heat. The glove is randomly placed on one hand of each participant, and an older model of the same product is placed on the other hand. A group of researchers randomly selects 4000 citizens of eight highly populated cities in the United States to study the health effects of pollution. The health of each subject is monitored over a five-year time span. Agricultural scientists seek to test the effects of a new pesticide on corn crops. Half of the participating farmers are assigned the new pesticide and the other half continue using an alternative pesticide. The crops are compared after two seasons.

In a science fair project, Emily conducted an experiment in which she tested professional touch therapists to see if they could sense her energy field. She flipped a coin to select either her right hand or her left hand, and then she asked the therapists to identify the selected hand by placing their hand just under Emily's hand without seeing it and without touching it. Among 340 trials, the touch therapists were correct 162 times. Complete parts (a) through (d). a. Given that Emily used a coin toss to select either her right hand or her left hand, what proportion of correct responses would be expected if the touch therapists made random guesses? 0.5 (Type an integer or a decimal. Do not round.) b. Using Emily's sample results, what is the best point estimate of the therapists' success rate? 0.476 (Round to three decimal places as needed.) c. Using Emily's sample results, construct a 90% confidence interval estimate of the proportion of correct responses made by touch therapists.…

In a science fair project. Emily conducted an experiment in which she tested professional touch therapists to see if they could sense her energy field. She flipped a coin to select either her right hand or her left hand, and then she asked the therapists to identify the selected hand by placing their hand just under Emily's hand without seeing it and without touching it. Among 329 trials, the touch therapists were correct 157 times. Complete parts (a) through (d) a. Given that Emilv used a coin toss to select either her right hand or her left hand. what proportion of correct responses would be expected if the touch therapists made random guesses? (Type an integer or a decimal. Do not round.) b. Using Emily's sample results, what is the best point estimate of the therapists' success rate? (Round to three decimal places as needed.)

How much customers buy is a direct result of how much time they spend in the store. A study of average shopping times in a large national houseware store gave the following information (Source: Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by P. Underhill). Women with female companion: 8.3 min.Women with male companion: 4.5 min.   Stores that sell mainly to women should figure out a way to engage the interest of men! Perhaps comfortable seats and a big TV with sports programs. Suppose such an entertainment center was installed and you now wish to challenge the claim that a woman with a male friend spends only 4.5 minutes shopping in a houseware store.

Hurricane damage: In August and September 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused extraordinary flooding in New Orleans, Louisiana. Many homes were severely damaged or destroyed, and of those that survived, many required extensive cleaning. It was thought that cleaning of flood-damaged homes might present a health hazard due to the large amounts of mold present in many of the homes. In a sample of 364 residents of Orleans Parish who had participated in cleaning of one or more homes, 72 had experienced symptoms of wheezing, and in a sample of 184 residents who had not participated in cleaning, 23 reported wheezing symptoms (numbers read from a graph). Can you conclude that the proportion of residents with wheezing symptoms is greater among those who participated in the cleaning of flood-damaged homes? Let p, denote the proportion of residents with wheezing symptoms who had cleaned flood-damaged homes, and let p, be the population proportion with wheezing symptoms who did not…

Do lizards play a role in spreading plant seeds? Some research carried out in a country would suggest so. The researchers collected 400 seeds of this particular type of fig, 100 of which were from each treatment: lizard dung, bird dung, rock hyrax dung, and uneaten figs. They planted these seeds in batches of 5, and for each group of 5 they recorded how many of the seeds germinated. This resulted in 20 observations for each treatment. The treatment means and standard deviations are given in the accompanying table. Treatment n Uneaten figs 20 | 2.80 0.30 Lizard dung 20 2.75 0.36 Bird dung 20 2.10 0.35 Hyrax dung 20 1.85 0.29 n USE SALT (a) Construct the appropriate ANOVA table, and test the hypothesis that there is no difference between the means for the number of seeds germinating for the four treatments. (Use a = 0.05. Round your mean squares to three decimal places and F statistic to two decimal places.) Source of Variation Sum of Squares Mean df F Square Treatments 3 13.45 4.483333…

Tim is interested in studying whether Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Six people who were diagnosed with OCD participated in Tim's study, where he recorded the number of times they washed their hands per day for one month. They were then given a three week intensive CBT program before their hand-washing was monitored for another month. The average number of times per day each participant washed their hands over the two months of observation are as follows: Participant Month 1 Month 2 1 11 6 2 8 5 3 14 17 4 10 10 5 22 11 6 15 10   Compute the appropriate statistic to determine whether the program was effective and use this information to fill in the blanks:   Q1. revealed that the number of times per day participants washed their hands following the CBT program was Q2. compared to the number of times per day participants washed their hands before the…

In a science fair project, Emily conducted an experiment in which she tested professional touch therapists to see if they could sense her energy field. She flipped a coin to select either her right hand or her left hand, and then she asked the therapists to identify the selected hand by placing their hand just under Emily's hand without seeing it and without touching it. Among 340 trials, the touch therapists were correct 162 times. Complete parts (a) through (d). a. Given that Emily used a coin toss to select either her right hand or her left hand, what proportion of correct responses would be expected if the touch therapists made random guesses? 0.5 (Type an integer or a decimal. Do not round.) b. Using Emily's sample results, what is the best point estimate of the therapists' success rate? (Round to three decimal places as needed.)

You are a researcher who wants to study how people’s feelings towards Congress change over time. You send a survey to the same 1,000 people at two time points: 2005 and 2015. What type of study is this? A. Open-ended response study B. Focus group study C. Two-wave panel study D. Three-wave panel study

Consider the following scenario and answer the questions below: The ornithologist decided to investigate the effect of temperature on the migration of North American birds. Develop a hypothesis in the appropriate format. Identify the independent variable. Identify the dependent variable. Plan an investigation (what would she do to collect data?). Did she engage in basic science or applied science? Explain. Did she engage in inductive or deductive reasoning? Explain