Steve Had a Hunch That Female Students Were More Punctual

question 22

Multiple Choice

Steve had a hunch that female students were more punctual than males in the classes that he taught. So, he began to keep track for a week in each class of how many male and female students came in after the class was scheduled to begin. His results supported his hypothesis. Steve is using

• A)inductive reasoning.
• B)qualitative analysis.
• C)deductive reasoning.
• D)ordinary human inquiry.
• E)statistical analysis.

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Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the spread of all values in a population, indicating how much the values differ from the mean of the population.

Sample

A subset of a population used for statistical analysis, selected for the purpose of making generalizations about the total population.

Estimated

An approximation or educated guess based on available data, rather than an exact measurement.

Test Statistic

A calculation, derived from sample data, used to determine the presence of a statistically significant difference between groups in hypothesis testing.