In a Study of Simulated Juror Decision Making, Braden-Maguire, Sigal

question 53

Multiple Choice

In a study of simulated juror decision making, Braden-Maguire, Sigal, and Perrino (2005) investigated the type of verdict assigned by study participants after they read a 12-page summation of a case involving a battered woman who had shot and killed her husband.Of the 80 participants, 27 assigned a verdict of guilty, 40 a verdict of not guilty by reason of self-defense, and 13 a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.What type of chi-square test should the researchers use to determine whether the distribution of verdicts differed from what could have been expected by chance?

• A) association
• B) dissociation
• C) goodness-of-fit
• D) independence

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