SCENARIO 12-2 The Dean of a College Is Interested in the Proportion

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SCENARIO 12-2
The dean of a college is interested in the proportion of graduates from his college who have a job offer on graduation day.He is particularly interested in seeing if there is a difference in this proportion for accounting and economics majors.In a random sample of 100 of each type of major at graduation,he found that 65 accounting majors and 52 economics majors had job offers.If the accounting majors are designated as "Group 1" and the economics majors are designated as "Group 2," perform the appropriate hypothesis test using a level of significance of 0.05.
-Referring to Scenario 12-2,the null hypothesis will be rejected if the test statistic is .

Identify and apply operational definitions in psychological research.

Distinguish between different research methods and their applications in psychological studies.

Understand the concept and utilization of control and experimental groups in research design.

Recognize the role and definition of independent and dependent variables in experimental research.

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