How can we make a fair comparison between the admission rates of men and women?

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How can we make a fair comparison between the admission rates of men and women? Explain

ra credit problem (extra 20% to HWL you should show calculations-numerical solution)) The summary statistics tor the umber admitted and the number denied broken down by the gender are given in the following table: (University of California, Berkley otal 8442 4321 44.3% 346% 4704 3738 1494 Women These mumbers strongly suggest bias against women However if the data are further broken down by the major to which admission was sought then a completely different picture emerges. The following table gives the number of men and women who applied to the six largest majors (which account for over third of the total mumber of applicants) and the coresponding admission rates Women Total Total Women No of Men men No of applicants Admitted applicants Admitted applicants Admitted No of 933 91 64 68 792 34 375 393 341 35 417 191 691 How we can make a fair comparison between the admission rates of men and women? Explain

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fair comparison between the admission rates of men and women

If you want comare admission rates of men and admission rates of women then you can use two -sample T test

Basically this test is used for whether there is significant difference between two variable of not .

So this test is very usefull for your data to compare admission rates of men and women .

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