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Start Assignment 3 only after you have completed Part III, “Inferences about Means and

Mean Differences.” Use all of the information provided in the textbook and the course
Study Guide. This assignment is worth 100 points and contributes 16% towards your
final grade. Please use the Sample Title Page shown in the Assignments Overview
area. Again, please save your assignment as a Word document, not pdf.

Please show your solution step by step on each problem to receive partial points for
wrong answers.

Question 1 (18 points)

Briefly and concisely discuss in your own words the following:

A. Define the t statistic and the z-score. Why would you choose one over the
other? (Give at least two reasons.) (3 pts)
B. Compare Cohen’s d and r 2. When and why are they used? (3 pts)
C. Compare the independent-measures t test with the repeated measures t test.
Give an example of each. (3 pts)
D. Explain how to determine the Fcrit value using Table B.4, “The F Distribution”, in
Appendix B of your textbook. (3 pts)
E. Explain how you calculate the F-ratio, and explain why it is used in ANOVA. (3
pts)
F. Compare the mean squares between treatments with the mean squares within
the treatment. Be sure to include the role of the treatment in each mean
square. (3 pts)
Question 2 (12 points)

A random sample of n = 30 has a mean of M = 56. Test the Ho that the population mean
is µ = 50 in situations a and b below.

A. The sample variance is s2 = 6: Use two-tailed test at α .05. Would the t-statistic
be significant? Show the five steps of hypothesis testing. (7 pts)
B. Suppose the sample variance is s2 = 300: Use two-tailed test at α .05. Would
the t-statistic be significant? (Show only Steps 3 and 4 of hypothesis testing.)
(3 pts)
C. Explain the effect of the size of the variance on the decisions you made above.
(2 pts)
Question 3 (16 points)

Given a sample of female students, n = 10, with SS = 600, and a sample of male
students, n = 12, with SS = 700:

A. Compute the pooled variance when you combine the two samples. (3 pts)
B. For the combined samples, what is the estimated standard error for the sample
mean difference? (3 pts)
C. If you computed the difference between the means of the two samples and
obtained a difference of 6, is this enough to reject the Ho for an independent-
measures hypothesis test using α .01, one-tailed test? (3 pts)
D. If the sample mean difference you obtained is 25 points, is this enough to
reject the Ho for an independent-measures hypothesis test using α .01, one-
tailed test? (3 pts)
E. Compute Cohen’s d to measure the effect size for the 6-point difference and
for the 25-point difference indicated in sub-questions c and d above. Briefly
describe the effect size of each difference. (4 pts)
Question 4 (13 points)

A study found that lower social class people were more empathic and supportive of
each other than higher social class people were among themselves. You wanted to
prove this through your study on how participants from these two classes respond to a
test measuring empathy and social support. Based on their scores shown in the table
below, is there a significant difference on these traits between these two separate
groups? Following the five steps of hypothesis testing, test at α.05, two-tailed test.
(NOTE: Solve SS using the computational formula.)

Lower Class Higher Class


13 10
12 10
13 17
14 13
16 12
13 11
17 13
10 10
15 12
16 16

Question 5 (17 points)

After conducting your study in Question 4 above, you wanted to determine if the higher
social class participants would significantly change their scores following volunteer work
with a charitable organization for half a year. You re-tested them on the same test after
volunteering. Was there a significant difference in their empathy and social support
scores after volunteering? Using the five steps of hypothesis testing, test at α .05, one-
tailed test. If the difference is significant, test the effect size through r 2 and describe the
effect size.
Participant After Volunteering Before Volunteering
A 15 10
B 13 10
C 19 17
D 18 12
E 10 10
F 14 11
G 14 13
H 15 10
I 14 12
J 18 16
Question 6 (24 points)

A psychologist found that transcendental meditation (TM) helped students perform


better by increasing their GPA. He is aware that companies allowing their employees to
have TM as part of their working hours became more successful. As the new industrial
psychologist of a large manufacturing company, he wanted to test if it would work in the
assembly unit following approval by management. He recruited 30 employees from the
day shift that he divided into 3 groups: Group A didn’t do TM, Group B incorporated a
15-minute TM during their lunch hour on 3 alternating days of the week, and Group C
also incorporated a 15-minute TM every day of the week. The study lasted for 3 months.
At the end of the study, the productivity level of the employees exceeding their required
quota was noted as shown below.

A. Using ANOVA, test the significance of the apparent difference in productivity


level at α .05. (13 pts)
B. Conduct two post hoc tests, Tukey’s HSD Test (5 pts) and Scheffe Test, both
at α .05 (6 pts). Be sure to indicate which mean differences are significant in
each test. Then give a conclusion comparing the results of the two post hoc
tests.
No TM 3-day TM Daily TM
0 2 5
2 3 4
1 3 3
2 4 5
3 1 6
0 2 4
1 4 5
2 3 3
3 2 4
1 2 2

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