A study shows that the amount of time spent by millennials playing video games is 22.6 hours
Question:
(a) If the null hypothesis is true, describe the sampling distribution of the mean number of hours spent playing video games.
(b) Calculate the probability of randomly choosing a sample in which the average number of hours of video games played was 24.2 or more.
(c) No hard and fast rule exists which divides the boundary between p-values for which we reject the null and those for which we feel the null is plausible. However p = 0.05 and p = Xi ~ Poisson : e?(2? ) (2?) X X ! , X = 0,1,2,… X 2 0.01 are two commonly used thresholds. Under these thresholds, should the student reject the null hypothesis?
(d) Suppose the student doubted the study’s findings but had no prior expectation of whether they were too high or too low. Perhaps she should determine the probability of randomly choosing a sample in which the average number of hours spent playing video games was as extreme or more extreme that 24.2 hours. Should she reject the null hypothesis in this case?
(e) Would a larger sample with the same mean of 24.2 have provided stronger evidence of a difference from the original study’s mean? Explain.
Statistics for Management and Economics Abbreviated
ISBN: 978-1285869643
10th Edition
Authors: Gerald Keller