In the article "When News Reporters Deceive: The Production of Stereotypes" (Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 281-298), researchers D. Lasorsa and J. Dai investigated the relationship between authenticity and tone for news stories. Tone was measured by using a method of coding sentences and was categorized as positive, neutral, or negative. A sample of stories yielded the following data.

At the 5% significance level, do the data provide sufficient evidence to conclude that an association exists between authenticity and tone?

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Authenticity Negative Neutral Positive Total Authentic Deceptive Total 170 110 31 311 59 49 20 128 61 il 183