Dr. Antonio believes that you can predict people’s choice of mate from their per

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Dr. Antonio believes that you can predict people’s choice of mate from their personal inventory of characteristics (PIC; measured 1-15). He administers the PIC to 100 students on campus and has those students rate the likelihood of dating a group of 10 co-eds (mate choice is measured on a 1-100 scale; 10 pts for each co-ed).

What are the null and alternative hypotheses (use the appropriate symbols not words)?

H0:

H1:

If the research obtains a test statistic of ____ , would the researcher retain or reject H0?

Should the researcher do any follow up tests or make any graphs/charts?

Interpret the findings in APA style

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What are the null and alternative hypotheses (use the appropriate symbols not words)?

H0: people’s choice of mate and personal inventory of characteristics are not associated

H1:  people’s choice of mate and personal inventory of characteristics are associated signficantly

Here using the correlation table and an alpha = 0.05 and n = 100

we see the critcal value from the table as 0.197

If the research obtains a test statistic of > 0.197 , the researcher can reject H0

One can always check the scatterplot to see how the 2 variables vary wrt to each other

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