A Student at a Midwest College Is Interested in Whether

question 75

Multiple Choice

A student at a Midwest college is interested in whether Psychology majors spend more or less time studying than English majors. She randomly selects 8 Psychology majors and 8 English majors and determines their weekly studying time. The following are the scores. Note one person dropped out of the study. An analysis is being conducted using the Mann-Whitney U test. Using a = 0.05 2 tail , what do you conclude?

• A) reject H 0 ; there is a significant difference in the amount of time Psychology and English majors study
• B) reject H 0 ; there is no difference in the amount of time Psychology and English majors study
• C) accept H 0 ; there is no difference in the amount of time Psychology and English majors study
• D) retain H 0 ; there is no difference in the amount of time Psychology and English majors study

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