You Are Conducting a Study to Compare the Characteristics of Women

question 66

Multiple Choice

You are conducting a study to compare the characteristics of women and men in senior executive positions at major US corporations.Samples of four senior executive men and four senior executive women are selected.The table below shows the number of years of management experience before promotion to a senior executive position for each of the two samples. At a 5% significance level, you use one-way analysis of variance to test the hypothesis that the average time before promotion is the same in the populations of men and women represented here.Compute the test statistic (F_stat) .

• A)2.667
• B)2.149
• C)3.115
• D)1.633

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