Read the Following Research Report and Answer the Question That

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Essay

Read the following research report and answer the question that follow.
A researcher compares men's and women's attitudes toward dating their best friend's former girl/boy friend.Specifically,college students are asked to read a story describing a situation in which their best friend breaks up with a partner and they later have an opportunity to date their best friend's former partner.Men and women rate the likelihood they would choose to date their best friend's former partner using a 10-point scale (0 = not at all likely and 9 = completely likely).In addition,participants rate the extent to which a similar situation has occurred to them using a 10-point scale (0 = not at all and 9 = completely).The mean ratings for each question for the two groups,men and women,are presented below: How many men and women were there in this study (assuming equal numbers of men and women)?

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Definitions:

Interquartile Range

The measure of variability in a dataset, represented by the difference between the 75th (upper quartile) and 25th (lower quartile) percentiles.

Interquartile Range

A measure of variability in a dataset, calculated by subtracting the value at the first quartile from the value at the third quartile.

Box Plot

A graphical representation that displays the distribution of data based on a five-number summary: minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.

Mean

The mean of a number set, determined by dividing the sum of all the values by the total count of values.