A Committee That Is Studying Employer-Employee Relations Proposed That Each

question 80

Essay

A committee that is studying employer-employee relations proposed that each employee would rate his or her immediate supervisor, and in turn the supervisor would rate each employee. To test if the reactions to the survey for office and plant personnel were the same, 120 office personnel and 160 plant personnel were selected at random. Seventy-eight of the office personnel and 90 of the plant personnel were in favor of the proposal. What is the value of the test statistic? Round to two decimal places.

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Definitions:

Correlated

When two or more variables are related in some way, indicating that changes in one variable are associated with changes in another.

Experiment

A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.

Hypothesis

A proposed explanation for a phenomenon, made as a starting point for further investigation, often testable by experimentation.

Laboratory Observation

The process of watching subjects in a controlled environment to gather data or test hypotheses.