Thank you in advance for helping me solve this problem6.22 from \"the basic prac

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Thank you in advance for helping me solve this problem6.22 from "the basic practice of statistics, Moore, 4thedition." "We sometimes hear that getting married is good for yourcarrier. Table 6.4 Job grade Single married divorce widowed 1 58 874 15 8 955
presents data from one of the studies behind thisgeneralization. To avoid gender effect, the investigators lookedonly at men. The data described the marital status and job level ofall 8235 male managers and professionals employed by a largemanufacturing firm. The firm assigns each position a grade thatreflects the value of that particular job to the company. Theauthors of the study grouped the many job grades into quarters.Grade 1 contains jobs in the lowest quarter of job grades and grade4 contains those in the highest quarter. The question that I need to answer: "There are874 married men with grade 1 jobs, and only 58 single men with suchjobs. Explain why these counts by themselves don't describe therelationship between marital status and job grade? Thank you in advance for helping me solve this problem6.22 from "the basic practice of statistics, Moore, 4thedition." "We sometimes hear that getting married is good for yourcarrier. Table 6.4 Job grade Single married divorce widowed 1 58 874 15 8 955 Job grade Single married divorce widowed 1 58 874 15 8 955
presents data from one of the studies behind thisgeneralization. To avoid gender effect, the investigators lookedonly at men. The data described the marital status and job level ofall 8235 male managers and professionals employed by a largemanufacturing firm. The firm assigns each position a grade thatreflects the value of that particular job to the company. Theauthors of the study grouped the many job grades into quarters.Grade 1 contains jobs in the lowest quarter of job grades and grade4 contains those in the highest quarter. The question that I need to answer: "There are874 married men with grade 1 jobs, and only 58 single men with suchjobs. Explain why these counts by themselves don't describe therelationship between marital status and job grade? Job grade Single married divorce widowed 1 58 874 15 8 955

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We need to compute percents to account for the fact thatthe study included many more married men than single men, so thatwe would expect their numbers to be higher in every job grade (evenif marital status had no relationship with job level).

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