Setting Aside Concerns About Demand,part of the Difference in the Earnings

question 75

Multiple Choice

Setting aside concerns about demand,part of the difference in the earnings of auto mechanics and chemical engineers is

• A) discrimination.
• B) blue-collar versus white-collar bias.
• C) due to differences in education.
• D) a lack of union representation.
• E) due to differences in work habits.

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Definitions:

Wilcoxon Rank-sum Test

A nonparametric statistical test used to compare two independent samples to see if they come from the same distribution.

Statistical Populations

A statistical population refers to the entire group of entities or outcomes that share a common characteristic, which is the subject of statistical analysis.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A nonparametric statistical test used to determine if there are statistically significant differences between two or more groups of an independent variable on a continuous or ordinal dependent variable.

Wilcoxon Rank-sum Test

A nonparametric statistical test used to compare two independent samples to assess whether their population mean ranks differ.