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Accounting and Machiavellianism. A study of Machiavellian traits in accountants was published in Behavioral Research in Accounting (January 2008). Recall (from Exercise 1.33, p. 52) that Machiavellian describes negative character traits such as manipulation, cunning, duplicity, deception, and bad faith. A Mach rating score was determined for each in a sample of accounting alumni of a large southwestern university. The accountants were then classified as having high, moderate, or low Mach rating scores. For one portion of the study, the researcher investigated the impact of both Mach score classification and gender on the average income of an accountant. For this experiment, identify each of the following:

a. Experimental unit

b. Response variable

c. Factors

d. Levels of each factor

e. Treatments

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e. The treatments are (low, male), (moderate, male), (high, male), (low, female), (moderate, female), and (high, female).

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Given Information

There are three levels of Mach scores and two levels of gender.

02

Definition

The combination of the different factor levels in the experiment are the treatments.

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Identifying the treatments

e.

There are six possible treatment combinations of three levels of Mach scores and two levels of gender.

That are (low, male), (moderate, male), (high, male), (low, female), (moderate, female), and (high, female).

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