SCENARIO 11-13
an Important Factor in Selecting Database Software Is

question 101

True/False

SCENARIO 11-13
An important factor in selecting database software is the time required for a user to learn how to use
the system. To evaluate three potential brands (A, B and C) of database software, a company
designed a test involving five different employees. To reduce variability due to differences among
employees, each of the five employees is trained on each of the three different brands. The amount of
time (in hours) needed to learn each of the three different brands is given below: $\begin{array}{ | r | r | r | r | } \hline & & \text { Software } & \\\hline \text { Operator } & \text { A } & \text { B } & \text { C } \\\hline 1 & 17 & 17 & 23 \\\hline 2 & 18 & 17 & 23 \\\hline 3 & 14 & 13 & 19 \\\hline 4 & 12 & 11 & 18 \\\hline 5 & 19 & 17 & 22 \\\hline \text { Mean } & 16 & 15 & 21 \\\hline\end{array}$

$\text { Below is the Excel output for the randomized block design: }$
$\begin{array}{lrrrrrr}\hline \text { Source of Variation } & S S & d f & \text { MS } & {\text { F }} & \text { P-value } & \text { Fcrit } \\\hline \text { Rows } & 84.66667 & 4 & 21.16667 & 50.8 & 9.98 \mathrm{E}-06 & 3.837853 \\\text { Columns } & 103.3333 & 2 & 51.66667 & 124 & 9.54 \mathrm{E}-07 & 4.45897 \\\text { Error } & 3.333333 & 8 & 0.416667 & & & \\\text { Total } & 191.3333 & 14 & & & & \\\hline\end{array}$
-Referring to Scenario 11-13, the decision made at a 0.05 level of significance on
the randomized block F test for the difference in means implies that all 3 means are significantly
different from each other.

Recognize the importance of the nature-nurture debate and its implications for psychology.

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Appreciate the interdisciplinary nature of psychology and its relationship with other sciences.

Understand the concepts and significance of organizational development (OD) and total quality management (TQM) in organizational change.

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