How Is Status Related to Listening

question 4

Multiple Choice

How is status related to listening?

• A) Most people will listen more attentively to a person with high status than to one with low status.
• B) As long as a source is interesting, her or his status makes little difference to listeners.
• C) Listeners rarely if ever take status into account when listening.
• D) Most people have a hard time listening to a high-status speaker because they feel intimidated.

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Definitions:

F-test

A statistical test used to compare two variances and determine if they come from populations with equal variances.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A nonparametric method for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution, used when the assumption of normality in ANOVA is violated.

P-value

The probability of observing test results at least as extreme as the results actually observed, under the assumption that the null hypothesis is true.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.