In his book Outliers, author Malcolm Gladwell argues that more American-born baseball players have birthdates in the months immediately following July 31 because that was the cutoff date for nonschool baseball leagues. The table below lists months of births for a sample of American-born baseball players and foreign-born baseball players. Using a 0.05 significance level, is there sufficient evidence to warrant rejection of the claim that months of births of baseball players are independent of whether they are born in America? Do the data appear to support Gladwell€™s claim? Test the given claim.

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Jan Febch AiMay July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Born in America 387 329 366 344 336 313 313 503 421 434 398 371 Foreign Born 01 82 85 2 94 83 59 91 70 100 103 82