Stats Questions

6.1, 6.3, 6.5, 6.7, 6.20, 6.21, 6.22, 6.23, 6.24, 6.25.
8.3, 8.5, 8.12, 8.14, 8.27, 8.31, 8.32, 8.38, 8.41.
6.1
a. This table describes 1808 people. 1379 have played video games.
b. As and Bs = 52.04% Cs = 32.85% Ds and Fs = 15.10%
47.95% of boys in the table received a grade of C or lower
6.3
Dist. of grades for players = 53.37% A/Bs, 32.63% Cs, and 14.00% D/Fs
Dis. of grades for non-players = 47.79% A/Bs, 33.57% Cs, and 18.65% D/Fs
I conclude that this table suggests that video game players achieve a higher
percentage of higher marks than non-video game players.
6.5
6.7
a. Rotura: Maori in jury pool = .8887% vs Non-maori in jury pool = 1.07%
Nelson: Maori in jury pool = .0752% vs Non-maori in jury pool = .1715%
b. Maori had a higher percentage of its people in the jury group.
c. This can happen because there is relatively much fewer Maori to begin
with than there are non-Maori inhabitants.
6.20
Marginal distributions marital status:
Single= 4.09% Married= 93.87% Divorced= 1.53% Widowed= 0.51%
Marginal distributions job grade:
1= 11.60% 2=51.48% 3= 30.24% 4= 6.69%
They both add up to 100% each.
6.21
17.21% of single men hold Grade 1 jobs.
6.07% of Grade 1 jobs are held by single men
6.22
Conditional distribution of job grade among single men:
Grade 1= 17.21%
Grade 2= 65.88%
Grade 3= 14.84%

Grade 4= 2.05%
They should all add up to 100%. (simple math)
6.23
a. Because we have to look at the percentages and not the actual numbers.
There are way more married men in the whole sample then there are single
men, so it is inaccurate to only look at the number of single/married men
who hold grade 1 jobs we must look at the big picture.
b.
Grade 1 jobs:
Single: 6.07%
Married: 91.52%
Divorced: 1.57%
Widowed: 0.84%
Grade 4 jobs:
Single: 1.27%
Married: 96.73%
Divorced: 1.27%
Widowed: 0.73%
There is a bigger conditional percentage of married men holding grade 4 jobs
than grade 1 jobs.
6.24
Some lurking variables may include experience level, age, sexual
orientation/preference, location, job preferences, employment barriers, etc
8.3
a. pop = 45,000
b. sample = 1000
group that information is obtained = 137
8.5
This method of sampling is biased because the sample is taken from a senior
psychology honour seminar which means that most of the people in there
are interested in psychology and would respond positively to a psychology
club. The direction of bias is towards agreeing to sign up for the club.

8.12
I would assign labels based on alphabetical order of students last names. I
would divide the students up into equal groups and then segregate them into
group by last name so that each group has the same or almost equal amount
of people as the rest of the groups.
8.14
Question A is slanted towards a negative response on the gays because it
opens with saying that the current federal law prohibits gays from serving.
The question already states the status quo, and people may take that stance
as being the right stance since it is the one already in place.
8.27
Population = 1000
Sample = 40
8.31
I would label the names according to last name alphabetical order, sorting
them so that each group has the same or very similar amounts of people in
them.
8.32
You should not always begin at the same place because then it would not be
completely random. The numbers that you start with would be the same and
multiple samples from different studies would not be completely random.
8.38
There is bias in the response because it is illegal to drive without a seat belt,
and possible the interviewees thought that they would get in trouble if they
said that they drive without a seat belt.