The Foggy Bottom Sheriff's Department Requires All Applicants for Deputy

question 8

Multiple Choice

The Foggy Bottom Sheriff's Department requires all applicants for deputy sheriff to pass a pre-employment agility test. It requires that an applicant to do 30 sit-ups in one minute, 25 pushups with no time limit, run 300 meters in 1 minute 11 seconds and drag a 165 pound dummy for a distance of 40 feet in 1 minute. Lisa McGregor fails the test. There are no female deputy sheriffs in the department.

• A) Lisa has a valid claim for gender discrimination because the requirements of the agility test are too strenuous for most women.
• B) Lisa has a valid claim for gender discrimination because the requirements of the agility test are just a subterfuge to avoid a claim of discrimination for screening applicants by height and weight.
• C) Lisa does not have a valid claim for gender discrimination if the department can show that the agility test, as composed, is job-related and necessary.
• D) Lisa does no have a valid claim for gender discrimination because the requirements of the agility test are not too strenuous for some women.

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Definitions:

Independent Variable

The variable that is manipulated or changed in an experiment to see if it has an effect on some other variable.

Type I Error

Incorrectly rejecting a true null hypothesis, also known as a "false positive" in statistical hypothesis testing.

Alpha Level

The threshold of statistical significance in hypothesis testing, often set at 0.05, below which the null hypothesis is rejected.

Small Sample Size

A condition where the number of participants or observations in a study is limited, potentially affecting the reliability or generalizability of the results.