You want to investigate a claim that women are more likely than men to dream in

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You want to investigate a claim that women are more likely than men to dream in color. You take a random sample of men and a random sample of women and ask whether they dream in color, and compare the proportions of each sex that dream in color.

Suppose two studies are conducted on this issue. Both studies find 30% of women sampled dream in color, compared to 20% of men. But study A consists of 100 people for each sex, whereas study B consists of 40 people of each sex. Which study would provide stronger evidence that there is a genuine difference between men and women on this issue?

a. Study A

b. Study B

c. The strength of evidence would be similar for these two studies.

Explanation / Answer

Which study would provide stronger evidence that there is a genuine difference between men and women on this issue?

Study A

because stydy A has a sample size more bigger than study B sample size

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