Pew Research conducts polls on social media use. In 2012, 66% of those surveyed reported using Facebook.

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Pew Research conducts polls on social media use. In 2012, 66% of those surveyed reported using Facebook. In 2018, 76% reported using Facebook.

a. Assume that both polls used samples of 100 people. Do a test to see whether the proportion of people who reported using Facebook was significantly different in 2012 and 2018 using a 0.01 significance level.

b. Repeat the problem, now assuming the sample sizes were both 1500. (The actual survey size in 2018 was 1785.)

c. Comment on the effect of different sample sizes on the p-value and on the conclusion.

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Introductory Statistics Exploring The World Through Data

ISBN: 9780135163146

3rd Edition

Authors: Robert Gould, Rebecca Wong, Colleen N. Ryan

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