The authors of the paper Movie Character Smoking and Adolescent Smoking: Who Matters More, Good Guys or

The authors of the paper €œMovie Character Smoking and Adolescent Smoking: Who Matters More, Good Guys or Bad Guys?€ (Pediatrics [2009]: 135€“141) classified characters who were depicted smoking in movies released between 2000 and 2005. The smoking characters were classified according to sex and whether the character type was positive, negative or neutral. The resulting data is given in the accompanying table. Assume that it is reasonable to consider this sample of smoking movie characters as representative of smoking movie characters. Do the data provide evidence of an association between sex and character type for movie characters who smoke? Use a = .05.

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Character Type Positive Negathe Neutral Sex Male Female 255 85 106 12 130 49