The Text Discusses a Problem in Which You Have a Drawer

question 11

Multiple Choice

The text discusses a problem in which you have a drawer that contains 19 black socks and 13 blue socks and you are asked to determine the minimum number of socks that you must take from the drawer to ensure that you have a matching pair.Most people have difficulty determining the answer (which is three socks) because they:

• A) are distracted by irrelevant information.
• B) have a belief bias.
• C) incorrectly apply the means-ends analysis algorithm.
• D) use the availability heuristic and it leads them to a false conclusion.

Understand the impact of sample size and expected frequencies on the validity of chi-square tests.

Analyze the relationship between demographic variables and preferences or behaviors using chi-square tests.

Distinguish between chi-square tests for independence and goodness-of-fit.

Apply appropriate statistical tests to examine hypotheses about differences or relationships in categorical data.