An Experiment by Bernstein and His Colleagues Showed That Men

question 16

Multiple Choice

An experiment by Bernstein and his colleagues showed that men will crowd into a small viewing cubicle next to an attractive woman to view a film when different movies are being shown in two viewing rooms but will go to a separate cubicle when only one film is available for viewing. An explanation for this finding is that:

• A) the men didn't like the movie being shown in the other viewing room.
• B) when people have a choice of settings, perceived control makes crowding more tolerable.
• C) men prefer watching movies in spacious environments when possible.
• D) in the two-film condition, there was less risk of rejection.

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Definitions:

Standard Error

A statistical measure that shows the precision of a sample's mean estimate of a population mean.

Sampling Variability

The variability of sample statistics over different samples of the same size from the same population, due to chance.

SRS

Simple Random Sampling (SRS) is a method of selecting individuals from a population in such a way that every set of individuals has an equal chance of being chosen.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points that constitute a sample drawn from a population for statistical analysis.