1.

A researcher is planning a psychological intervention study, but before he proceeds he

wants to characterise his participants' depression levels. He tests each participant on a
particular depression index, where anyone who achieves a score of 4.0 is deemed to have
'normal' levels of depression. Lower scores indicate less depression and higher scores
indicate greater depression. He has recruited 40 participants to take part in the study. He
wants to know whether his sample is representative of the normal population (i.e., do they
score statistically significantly differently from 4.0). Answer: One sample t-test

3 2 2 3 3 2 3 2 3 2
3 2 2 3 2 3 3 2 3 2
2 2 2 3 3 3 3 2 3 3
3 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 3 2

2. A manager wants to raise the productivity at his company by increasing the speed at
which his employees can use a particular spreadsheet program. As he does not have the
skills in-house, he employs an external agency which provides training in this
spreadsheet program. They offer 3 courses: a beginner, intermediate and advanced
course. He is unsure which course is needed for the type of work they do at his company,
so he sends 10 employees on the beginner course, 10 on the intermediate and 10 on the
advanced course. When they all return from the training, he gives them a problem to
solve using the spreadsheet program, and times how long it takes them to complete the
problem. He then compares the three courses (beginner, intermediate, advanced) to see if
there are any differences in the average time it took to complete the problem.

Answer: One way Anova

BEGINNER Intermediate Advanced

6 5 3
7 4 4
8 3 2
7 6 4
6 7 5
5 8 4
4 6 3
5 5 4
6 4 5
9 6 6
3. The manufacturer of a new drug claims that it will lower blood pressure by 13
points on the average. When the drug was administered to 6 patients, the following
drops in blood pressure were registered: 12, 16, 15, 9, 10 and 16. Is the claim
sustained at 0.05 level of significance? Answer: One sample t-test

4. To determine whether having a relationship with opposite sex in college is

detrimental to one’s grade. The following grade point averages of 10 students were
recorded. Answer: Two independent samples t-test

W/ 3.0 1.75 2.75 2.5 1.5 1.25 2.75 3.0 1.25 2.25
relationship
W/o 1.5 1.5 2.0 1.75 1.75 2.0 1.75 2.5 1.75 2.0
relationship
Assuming that the data were normally distributed, test at 0.05 level of significance
whether having relationship with opposite sex in college is detrimental to one’s
grade.

5. A researcher conducted a survey to determine whether working mothers affect

the performance of their 7-year old children in school. The following data were
taken on 100 7-year old students. Answer: Chi-square
Performance of 7-year old students in school
low Average High
Working Mothers 20 22 17
Non- working 23 12 6
Mothers

6. As a psychologist who works with people who have Down's syndrome, you
design a study intended to determine which rewards are most effective for use in
training your patients. You select four different, independent, groups of six patients
and record the number of days it takes to teach them a particular task, with each
group receiving one of four types of rewards: Reward 1, Reward 2, Reward 3, and
Reward 4. The number of days are given in the table below. Answer: One way
Anova

Reward 1 Reward 2 Reward 3 Reward 4

3 6 9 12
5 7 10 13
6 9 15 15
2 7 12 18
1 11 11 15
2 6 10 13
7. A manager wants to see if geographical region is associated with ownership of a
macintosh computer. The manager surveys 100 people and the data breaks down as
follows: Answer: Chi-squre

Mac No Mac
North East 12 14
South West 21 18
Mid West 17 18