When Writing a Report to Your Boss Trying to Persuade

question 98

True/False

When writing a report to your boss trying to persuade her to update the database system you should omit your own issues and frustrations with the system, since it is inappropriate to include personal experience as evidence in support of your argument.

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Definitions:

Independent Samples

Refers to samples drawn from two populations where the selection of a sample from one population is not influenced by the selection from the other.

Population Means

The average value of a particular characteristic in the entire population.

Z-score

A statistical measure that describes a value's relationship to the mean of a group of values, measured in terms of standard deviations from the mean.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a statistic based on a large number of samples or replicates.