A university conducted a study of online adults that included 419 tablet owners. The study found that 215 tablet owners use their tablet while watching TV. The authors of the report imply that the survey proves that more than half of all tablet owners use their tablet while watching TV at least once per day. Complete parts (a) through (d) below.
a) Use the five-step p-value approach to hypothesis testing and a 0.05 level of significance to try to prove that more than half of all tablet owners use their tablet while watching TV at least once per day. Determine the null hypothesis, Upper H0, and the alternative hypothesis, Upper H1.
A university conducted a study of online adults that included 419 tablet owners. The study found...
A study by a reputable research group captured multitasking activities of adults who use different devices while watching TV. The study reported that 315 of 432 (73%) smartphone users sampled, 192 of 342 (56%) computer users sampled, and 142 of 266 (53%) tablet users sampled used their device to check social media unrelated to the video content while watching TV. Complete parts (a) through (c) below. a. Is there evidence of a significant difference among the smartphone, computer, and tablet...
According to a survey conducted by the Association for Dressings and Sauces, 70% of American adults eat salad once a week. A nutritionist suspects that this percentage is not accurate. She conducts a survey of 234 American adults and finds that 150 of them eat salad once a week. Use a 0.1 significance level to test the claim that the proportion of American adults who eat salad once a week is different from 70%. Hint: When you calculate ˆpp^, round...
An online survey of college parents was conducted. An email was sent to 41,000 parents who were listed in either of two college databases. Parents were invited to participate in the online survey. Out of those invited, 1,748 completed the online survey. The survey protected the anonymity of those participating in the survey but did not allow more than one response from an individual IP address. One of the survey results was that 33% of mothers communicate at least once...
A study conducted by the research department of a pharmaceutical company claims that the annual spending (per person) for prescription drugs for allergy relief, μ1 , is greater than or equal to the annual spending (per person) for non-prescription allergy relief medicine, μ2 . A health insurance company conducted an independent study and collected data from a random sample of 205 individuals for prescription allergy relief medicine. The sample mean is found to be 17.5 dollars/year, with a sample standard...
A study conducted in September and October of 2010 found that fewer than half of employers who hired new college graduates last academic year plan to definitely do so again (The Wall Street Journal November 29, 2010) Suppose the hiring intentions of the respondents were as follows (Use Table 3) Definitely Hire Likely to Hire 179 Hire Uncertain 2896 will not Hire 18% Six months later, a sample of 500 employers were asked their hiring intentions and gave the following...
5. Researchers conducted a study of smartphone use among adults. A cell phone company calmed that IPhone smartphones are more popular with whites (non-Hispanic) than with African Americans. The results of the survey Indicate that of the 232 African American cell phone owners randomly sampled, 5% have an iPhone. Of the 1,343 white cell phone owners randomly sampled, 10% own an iPhone. Test at the 5% level of significance. Is the proportion of white iPhone owners greater than the proportion...
A Pew Research study conducted in 2017 found that approximately
75% of Americans believe that robots and computers might one day do
many of the jobs currently done by people.† Suppose we have the
following data collected from nurses, tax auditors, and fast-food
workers in which a higher score means the person feels his or her
job is more likely to be automated.
Nurse
Tax
Auditor
Fast-Food
Worker
4
4
5
4
6
7
6
4
5
2
3
7...
A Pew Research study conducted in 2017 found that approximately
75% of Americans believe that robots and computers might one day do
many of the jobs currently done by people.† Suppose we have the
following data collected from nurses, tax auditors, and fast-food
workers in which a higher score means the person feels his or her
job is more likely to be automated.
Nurse
Tax
Auditor
Fast-Food
Worker
4
5
5
4
6
8
5
4
5
2
3
7...
A Pew Research study conducted in 2017 found that approximately
75% of Americans believe that robots and computers might one day do
many of the jobs currently done by people.† Suppose we have the
following data collected from nurses, tax auditors, and fast-food
workers in which a higher score means the person feels his or her
job is more likely to be automated.
Nurse
Tax
Auditor
Fast-Food
Worker
4
4
6
5
5
7
5
4
5
3
3
7...
Two researchers conducted a study in which two groups of students were asked to answer 42 trivia questions from a board game. The students in group 1 were asked to spend 5 minutes thinking about what it would mean to be a professor, while the students in group 2 were asked to think about soccer hooligans. These pretest thoughts are a form of priming. The 200 students in group 1 had a mean score of 26.2 with a standard deviation...