Suppose You Know That the Mean Score (M)on a Measure

question 98

Short Answer

Suppose you know that the mean score (m)on a measure of the personality trait "Openness to Experience" is 35.66 in a population of artists,with a standard deviation (s)of 13.32.Next,assume you went to Greenwich Village and gave this personality measure to a group of 10 artists.The mean in this sample was 40.33.You are interested in testing whether the 10 Greenwich Village artists were sampled from the same population described above.How would you state the null hypothesis for this test?

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