Referring to Exhibit 5: The above is an example of a _____.

A sales manager has recently implemented a training program to improve the performance of her sales force. She wants to know whether the training program was effective (e.g., that it improved the performance of her salespeople). The manager had gathered data on the performance of her sales force before the training program was implemented and also gathered data on the performance of her sales force after the training program was completed. The measure evaluated the performance of the salespeople on a 7-point scale, where 1 = poor and 7 = excellent. The following statistical test was conducted:     Referring to the analysis: What would be an appropriate conclusion drawn from the statistical test results?

When subjects act differently because they are aware that they are in an experiment, this is called the:

Draw a syntactic tree for the sentence below. (Hint: pay attention to PP placement, assuming the most likely meaning of the sentence.) Upload your tree as a PDF file. (In case the upload here doesn’t work, there’s also another link available in the “Test 3” module that you can use if you need to.) The studious college student took the test on linguistics with a pencil.

When writing a research report, definitions of unfamiliar concepts should be included in the introduction.

When the scale is nominal, the appropriate measure of central tendency is _______. When the scale is ratio, the appropriate measure of central tendency is ________.

One question asks respondents to rank the following five fees on a scale of 1 to 4, where 1 = most willing and 4 = least willing to pay.    _____ Computer fee _____ Library fee _____ Parking fee _____ Student Center fee   What level of measurement does this type of scale have?

What is the appropriate statistical test to use to test the following hypothesis:  “The average job performance rating of an advertising manager will be significantly higher after participating in an ethics training course than their average job performance rating before participating in an ethics training course.”

A question, such as “Have you ever received a speeding ticket? __ Yes __ No,” when followed by a question, such as: “When did you receive that ticket?”, where only those who responded ‘yes’ reply to the second question – is an example of what type of question?

What software package did we use for statistical analysis in this class?