Question

	Gender	N	Mean	Std. Deviation	Std. Error
To What Extent Is A	Male	33	3.03	1.045	.182
Forecast Certification	Female	69	2.62	.859	.103
Helpful to a Job Applicant

	F	Sig	t	df	Sig (2 tailed)
Equal Variances Assumed	2.026	.158	2.084	100	.040
Equal Variances not Assumed			1.945	53.396	.057

Can we say that men and women have different attitudes about whether having a certification is helpful to applicants for a job in forecasting? Write your null and alternative (research) hypotheses. Make a clear statistical decision and explain why you make this decision. Then write a one or two-sentence explanation of what the decision means (i.e. provide a conclusion).

Answer 1

Answer

Null hypothesis and alternate hypothesis are given below

Using the data output given above with 0.05 level of significance

(A) Assuming equal variances with 0.05 level of significance, there is a significant difference between men and women attitudes about whether having a certification is helpful to applicants for a job in forecasting because the p value is less than 0.05 level of significance. (p value is less than 0.05, rejecting the null hypothesis)

(B) Assuming unequal variances with 0.05 level of significance, there is no significant difference between men and women attitudes about whether having a certification is helpful to applicants for a job in forecasting because the p value is more than 0.05 level of significance. (p value is less than 0.05, failed to reject the null hypothesis)