TUGAS 3 PROBABILITAS DAN STATISTIKA

1. Oishi and Shigehiro (2010) report that people who move from home to home frequently
as children tend to have lower than average levels of well-being as adults. To further
examine this relationship, a psychologist obtains a sample of n = 12 young adults who
each experienced 5 or more different homes before they were 16 years old. These
participants were given a standardized well-being questionnaire for which the general
population has an average score of µ= 40. The well-being scores for this sample are as
follows: 38, 37, 41, 35, 42, 40, 33, 33, 36, 38, 32, 39.
a. On the basis of this sample, is well-being for frequent movers significantly different
from wellbeing in the general population? Use a two-tailed test with a α = 0.05.
b. Compute the estimated Cohen’s d to measure the size of the difference.
c. Write a sentence showing how the outcome of the hypothesis= test and the measure of
effect size would appear in a research report.

2. A local college requires an English composition course for all freshmen. This year they
are evaluating a new online version of the course. A random sample of n = 16 freshmen
is selected and the students are placed in the online course. At the end of the semester, all
freshmen take the same English composition exam. The average score for the sample is M
= 76. For the general population of freshmen who took the traditional lecture class, the
exam scores form a normal distribution with a mean of µ= 80.
a. If the final exam scores for the population have a standard deviation of σ = 12, does
the sample provide enough evidence to conclude that the new online course is
significantly different from the traditional class? Assume a two-tailed test with α =
0.05.
b. If the population standard deviation is σ = 6, is the sample sufficient to demonstrate a
significant difference? Again, assume a two-tailed test with α = 0.05.
c. Comparing your answers for parts a and b, explain how the magnitude of the standard
deviation influences the outcome of a hypothesis test.