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In 2002, the General Social Survey conducted by StatsSA, participants was asked the following questions: 1. Do you favour or oppose the death penalty for persons convicted of murder? 2. Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal or not? If you want to know if there is a relationship between death penalty and marijuana beliefs, what hypotheses should you test? What is the critical value (rounded off to three decimals)?
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