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Is astrology scientific? The General Social Survey (GSS) asked a random sample of adults their opinion about whether astrology is very scientific, sort of scientific, or not at all scientific. Here is a two-way table of counts for people in the sample who had three levels of higher education:

a. State appropriate hypotheses for performing a chi-square test for independence in this setting.

b. Compute the expected counts assuming that H0is true.

c. Calculate the chi-square test statistic, df, and P-value.

d. What conclusion would you draw?

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(a) The appropriate hypothesis is the null hypothesis.

(b) The expected count is,


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YES183.59
251.85103.56
NO50.41
69.15
28.44

c) The test statistics is 2=10.5819,df=2,P-value=0.005037

(d) There are many convincing pieces of evidence for the association between degree held and the opinion about the astrology.

Step by step solution

01

Part (a) Step 1: Given information 

We need to find out the appropriate hypothesis for performing a chi-square test for independence in this setting.

02

Part (a) Step 2: Explanation 

We know that

The null hypothesis asserts that the variables are unrelated, whereas the alternative hypothesis asserts that they are.

H0is there is no association between degree held and the opinion about the astrology.

His there is an association between degree held and the opinion about the astrology.

03

Part (b) Step 1: Given information 

We need to find the expected counts.

04

Part (b) Step 2: Explanation 

From part (a)

We know that

Expected frequencies are a product of row and column total divided by table total. So,

ROW AND COLUMN NUMBER
EXPECTED FREQUENCY
E11183.59
E12
251.85
E13
103.56
E21
50.41
E22
69.15
E23
28.44
05

Part (c) Step 1: Given information 

We need to find the test statistics, df, P-value.

06

Part (c) Step 2: Explanation 

From parts (a) and (b)

We know that

The squared differences between the actual and predicted frequencies, divided by the expected frequency, make up the chi-square subtotals.

Therefore, test-statistics is, 2=10.5819

And,

df=2P-value=0.005<P<0.01=0.005037

07

Part (d) Step 1: Given information 

We need to find out the conclusion drawn.

08

Part (d) Step 2: Explanation 

From the parts (a) ,(b) and (c)

We know that

There are many convincing pieces of evidence for the association between degree held and the opinion about astrology.

And this is the conclusion we drew.

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