{"id":178694,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/a-researcher-predicts-that-watching-a-film-on-institutionalization-will-change-students-attitudes-about-chronically-mentally-ill-patients-the-researcher-randomly-selects-a-class-of-36-studen"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:27:11","slug":"a-researcher-predicts-that-watching-a-film-on-institutionalization-will-change-students-attitudes-about-chronically-mentally-ill-patients-the-researcher-randomly-selects-a-class-of-36-studen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/a-researcher-predicts-that-watching-a-film-on-institutionalization-will-change-students-attitudes-about-chronically-mentally-ill-patients-the-researcher-randomly-selects-a-class-of-36-studen\/","title":{"rendered":"A researcher predicts that watching a film on institutionalization will change students\u2019 attitudes about chronically mentally ill patients. The researcher randomly selects a class of 36 students, shows them the film, and gives them a questionnaire about their attitudes. The mean score on the questionnaire for these 36 students is 70. The score for a similar class of students who did not see the film is 75. The standard deviation is 12. Using the five steps of hypothesis testing and the 5% significance level (i.e. alpha = .05), does showing the film change students\u2019 attitudes towards the chronically mentally ill?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A researcher predicts that watching a film on institutionalization will change students\u2019 attitudes about chronically mentally ill patients. The researcher randomly selects a class of 36 students, shows them the film, and gives them a questionnaire about their attitudes. The mean score on the questionnaire for these 36 students is 70. The score for a similar class of students who did not see the film is 75. The standard deviation is 12. Using the five steps of hypothesis testing and the 5% significance level (i.e. alpha = .05), does showing the film change students\u2019 attitudes towards the chronically mentally ill?<\/p>\n

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  1. What does it mean to set alpha at .05?<\/li>\n
  2. What is your null hypothesis? Alternate hypothesis?<\/li>\n
  3. Is this a one-tailed or two-tailed hypothesis?<\/li>\n
  4. What is the critical z?<\/li>\n
  5. Suppose the obtained z was -2.5. Do you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis?<\/li>\n
  6. State in words what you have found.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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