Question

What can you conclude from these results? Is Betty’s hypothesis supported?

Betty has the following hypothesis: Women are more likely to believe that hard work leads to success than men are. Betty ran a comparison of means test on survey data and had the following results from SPSS. The variable about "hard work" ranges from 1 to 10 with 1 being the strongest belief that hard work brings success and 10 being the strongest belief that hard work does NOT bring success (**note that this is reversed from what you might think from the variable name.**) Group Statistics Std Error Mean Hard work brings success Mean 1045 3. 73 11143.93 Std Deviation 2 .504 22495 Female Independent Samples Test Levene's Test for Equality of Variances S-test for Equality Sig (2-tailed) Mean Difference -1.895 2157 Hard work brings success Equal variantes assumed Equal variances not assumed -1.895 2147 255

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Answer:

What can you conclude from these results? Is Betty’s hypothesis supported?

Betty’s hypothesis: women are more likely to believe that hard work leads to success than men

( note: lower the score , more the belief)

Ho: µm = µF

H1: µm > µF

From the output, calculated t= -1.895, P=0.058. This is two sided P value , we need the upper tail p value,

P( t >-1.895) = 1-0.058/2 = 0.971

The obtained p value is > 0.05 level of significance.

Ho is not rejected.

There is no evidence to support the Betty’s hypothesis.