In a Recent Hiring Period, XYZ Corporation Hired 23% of the Males

question 19

Multiple Choice

In a recent hiring period, XYZ Corporation hired 23% of the males who applied and 11% of the females. A lawsuit was contemplated because these numbers seemed to indicate that there was gender discrimination. On closer examination, it was found that XYZ was hiring for only two of its divisions: engineering and secretarial. Applicants applying by gender per department are given in the following table: Which of the following is NOT correct?

• A)The overall percentage of female applicants hired is less than that of male applicants.
• B)We are observing Simpson's paradox.
• C)We compare the company's overall percentage hired with the percentage hired for each division.
• D)The absolute numbers involved in calculating the percentages caused a paradoxical situation.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Processes

Mental processes such as thinking, knowing, problem solving, remembering, and forming mental representations.

Classical Conditioning

An educational process in which a response naturally happens is acquired by associating an environmental signal with a spontaneous stimulus.

Fixed Interval Schedule

A reinforcement schedule in operant conditioning where the first response is rewarded only after a specified amount of time has elapsed.

Classical Conditioning

A learning technique involving the frequent pairing of two stimuli, so that a response originally stimulated by the second of the stimuli is in the end stimulated by only the first stimulus.