Participants Are Faced with the Following Choice: Man (Or Woman)

question 61

Multiple Choice

Participants are faced with the following choice: Man (or Woman) A, who is extraordinarily good-looking and works as a server in a small restaurant with no further ambitions; or Man (or Woman) B, who is average looking, made a fortune selling an invention, and has outstanding prospects as a medical researcher. Who do participants choose?

• A) women are evenly divided between A and B; men overwhelmingly choose A
• B) women overwhelmingly choose B; men have a slight preference for A
• C) women overwhelmingly choose A; men have a slight preference for B
• D) women and men are both evenly divided between A and B

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Definitions:

Groups

Collections of subjects, items, or observations often categorized based on specific characteristics for analysis.

Two-Tailed T Test

A statistical hypothesis test used to determine if there is a significant difference between the means of two groups, with no presumption about the direction of the difference.

Null Hypothesis

A statement or hypothesis that suggests there is no statistical significance between the two variables being studied or no effect of an experimental variable.

P > 0.05

Indicates that the probability of obtaining the observed data, or more extreme, under the null hypothesis is greater than 5%, suggesting results are not statistically significant.