A Powerful Women's Group Has Claimed That Men and Women

question 38

Multiple Choice

A powerful women's group has claimed that men and women differ in attitudes about sexual discrimination. A group of 50 men (group 1) and 40 women (group 2) were asked if they thought sexual discrimination is a problem in the United States. Of those sampled, 11 of the men and 19 of the women did believe that sexual discrimination is a problem. If the p-value turns out to be 0.035 (which is not the real value in this data set) , then

• A) at α = 0.05, we should fail to reject H_0.
• B) at α = 0.04, we should reject H_0.
• C) at α = 0.03, we should reject H_0.
• D) None of the above would be correct statements.

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