A researcher wants to know whether a hard copy of a textbook provides additional benefits over an e-book. She conducts a study where participants are randomly assigned to read a passage either on a piece of paper or on a computer screen. After a distractor task lasting 30 minutes, the participants are tested for their comprehension of the passage with a multiple-choice test containing 10 questions about their passage. Comprehension was scored using percent correct (0 — 100%). The researcher predicts that those randomly assigned to read the passage on a piece of paper will remember significantly more than those who read the passage online. Question: As taught in 510/515, what is the most appropriate graph to illustrate this scenario? Scatterplot Clustered bar graph Bar graph

A political scientist claims that 38% of first-year college students characterize themselves as being “moderate” or “middle of the road” as far as their political affiliation is concerned.   Believing this claimed value is too high, you survey a random sample of 400 first-year college students and find that 120 characterize themselves as being “moderate” or “middle of the road.”    Based on this information, what will the test statistic be? Choose the answer below that is closest to what you calculate, and try not to do a lot of rounding until you get to the very end of your calculations.   1. -0.3 2. -1.2 3. -2.6 4. -3.3 5. None of the other answer options are correct because the test statistic should be positive, not negative.

Does the source of medical information affect people’s confidence that it is true?  To answer this question, you presented medical information to participants regarding the importance of vaccinations.  Participants were randomly assigned to read medical information from a doctor, a politician, or a celebrity.  Then, they indicated how confident they were that the information is true.

For this example should a correlated or independent sample t test be used? Delayed posttest achievement scores were compared withimmediate posttest scores for all participants.

Scenario: A researcher wants to know whether a hard copy of a textbook provides additional benefits over an e-book. She conducts a study where participants are randomly assigned to read a passage either on a piece of paper or on a computer screen. After a distractor task lasting 30 minutes, the participants are tested for their comprehension of the passage with a multiple-choice test containing 10 questions about their passage. Comprehension was scored using percent correct (0 — 100%). The researcher predicts that those randomly assigned to read the passage on a piece of paper will remember significantly more than those who read the passage online. Question: What is the research / alternate hypothesis for this scenario?    People who read a passage on a piece of paper will remember more than those who read a passage online.      People who read a passage on a piece of paper will not remember more than those who read a passage online.      Amount remembered of a passage will vary based…

A research study concluded that self-employed individuals do not experience higher job satisfaction than individuals who are not self-employed. In this study, job satisfaction is measured using 18 items, each of which is rated using a Likert-type scale with 1–5 response options ranging from strong agreement to strong disagreement. A higher score on this scale indicates a higher degree of job satisfaction. The sum of the ratings for the 18 items, ranging from 18–90, is used as the measure of job satisfaction. Suppose that this approach was used to measure the job satisfaction for lawyers, physical therapists, cabinetmakers, and systems analysts. Suppose the results obtained for a sample of 10 individuals from each profession follow. Lawyer Physical Therapist Cabinetmaker Systems Analyst 46 53 56 42 40 78 65 71 74 80 81 73 42 88 67 62 53 62 81 66 50 59 66 64 45 60 61 39 50 50 80 55 62 53 84 74 36 50 58 62 At the ? = 0.05 level of significance, test for any…

A study was conducted to explore the possibility of a audiobook treatment effect on sleep quality (better, worse). One version of the study involved 32 uber drivers. The uber drivers were given the option to choose which group they were in. One group listened to an audiobook while they slept, while the other group did not. The researchers found a difference of 21.9 percentage points between the proportion of uber drivers in each group who experienced better sleep quality. The group that listened to an audiobook had the higher proportion. The tail proportion from a randomisation test carried out with the data from the study was 1/1000.