Stop Sign Behavior A lonely graduate student noted the gender of persons driving a car approaching a
Question:
Stop Sign Behavior
A lonely graduate student noted the gender of persons driving a car approaching a stop sign and their behavior. When there was clearly no cross traffic, here's what the grad student discovered:
Men
Full Stop - 7
Rolling Stop - 14
No Stop - 6
Women
Full Stop - 3
Rolling Stop 24
No Stop - 2
Can the poor graduate student make any conclusion from these observations?
6. Restate question as a research hypothesis and a null hypothesis about the populations.
Population 1:
Population 2:
Research hypothesis:
Null hypothesis:
7. Determine the characteristics of the comparison distribution.
8. Determine the cutoff sample score on the comparison distribution at which the null hypothesis should be rejected.
9. Determine your sample's score on the comparison distribution.
10. Decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.