Question

FINAL REVIEW: o Determine o a) Which test would you use (and why o b) The IV and DV o c) The scales of measure for the IV and DV o d) The two statistical hypotheses. o Researchers suspect that people are more trusting of eople that are considered very attractive by modern eauty standards. To test this, researchers have one group of participants (n- 35) watch an attractive politician give a speech and one group of participants (n - 43) watch an unattractive politician give the same speech. After this, participants filled out a form indicating how trustworthy the politician seemed on a scale from 1 to 10.

Answer 1

(a)

2 Independent Samples t test

Explanation:

The 2 samples are independent and Population SD not provided.

(b)

(i) Independent Variable: Attractiveness and Unattractiveness of politician

(ii) Dependent Variable: Trustworthiness as measured by scale 1 to 10.

(c)

(i) Independent Variable: Attractiveness and Unattractiveness of politician - Nominal

(ii) Dependent Variable: Trustworthiness as measured by scale 1 to 10.- Ordinal

(d)

H0:Null Hypothesis: Attractiveness and Unattractiveness of politician and Trustworthiness are independent

HA: Alternative Hypothesis: Attractiveness and Unattractiveness of politician and Trustworthiness are dependent