The Quality of a Discussion Often Depends on How Closely

question 9

Essay

The quality of a discussion often depends on how closely the parties attend to the same issue. For the passage below, determine whether the speakers are clearly disputing the same issue, or whether somebody is missing the point.
A: Look, it's just good business sense to foreclose on a piece of property when the mortgage defaults. We can't sit around here and carry these loans month after month.
B: The people who owe on these properties are out of work because of the recession, not because of any fault of their own. If we foreclose on them, many will be financially ruined and may never be able to afford a home of their own again.

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Definitions:

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A non-parametric statistical test that compares three or more independent samples to determine if at least one sample distribution stochastically dominates one other sample.

Critical Value

A threshold value used in hypothesis testing which separates the region where the null hypothesis is rejected from the region where it is not rejected.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A nonparametric method for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution, used when the ANOVA assumptions are not met.

Independent Samples

Are samples where the selection of one sample has no impact on the selection of another, typically required in comparative studies.