A Political Analyst Categorized Two Groups of People as Either

question 20

Multiple Choice

A political analyst categorized two groups of people as either having traveled to Europe or not traveled to Europe and asked the two groups to rank the importance of economic issues currently being debated by the European Union.The analyst wants to compare the rankings for the two groups.Which test should be used?

• A) Wilcoxon signed-rank test
• B) paired-samples t test
• C) independent-samples t test
• D) Mann-Whitney U test

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