The Human Resources Department at a Major High Tech Company

question 15

Multiple Choice

The human resources department at a major high tech company recently conducted an employee satisfaction survey of 100 of its 3,000 employees. Data were collected on such variables as age, gender, marital status, current salary, level of overall satisfaction on a scale from 1 to 5, number of years with the company, and job title. Which of the following best describes the overall data set that was generated from the study?

• A) cross-sectional data
• B) time series data
• C) nominal data
• D) quantitative data
• E) categorical data

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Definitions:

Mean Number

The average value of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all numbers by the count of those numbers.

Significance Level

In hypothesis testing, the threshold below which the p-value must fall for the results to be considered statistically significant, commonly set at 0.05.

Mean Score

the average score calculated by adding all the individual scores and dividing by the number of scores.

Programming Ability

The capacity to design, write, test, and debug/troubleshoot computer code in order to create computer applications, websites, or systems.