Question

An industrial psychologist is studying how different types of management styles affect productivity for both younger and older employees.   The management styles the psychologist compares are: 1. Authoritative, 2. Collaborative decision making 3. Low impact. An equal number of younger and older employees were supervised using one of these three different management styles for a month and their productivity was measured. A total of 120 people participated in this study, assume each cell had an equal n value.

1. Name each of the independent variables in this study. ________________________________________________________________
2. Using statistical jargon, what type of experimental design is this? ___________
3. As presented, this experiment would be a ____ X _____   ANOVA
4. Draw a matrix below for the experimental design of this study.

1. What is the n value for each of the cells in this study? __________
2. In this study, how many F_calculated values will the psychologist calculate? ________

Answer 1

The independent variables are

1. Management style which has three levels and

2. Age group having two levels younger employees and older employees

The type of experiment is Randomised Block Design

The experiment would be 2 X 3 ANOVA

	Authoritative	Collaborative	Low Impact
Younger				60
Older				60

The n value for each cell will be 20

If Interactions are not considered then we will have to calculate two F values one for each independent variables

And if Interactions are condered then we will have to calculate three F values one for each of the independent variables and one for their interaction.

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