Hout, Duncan, and Sobel (1987) reported data on the relative sexual satisfaction of married couples. They asked each member of 91 married couples to rate the degree to which they agreed with €œSex is fun for me and my partner€ on a four-point scale ranging from €œnever or occasionally€ to €œalmost always.€ The data appear below:

(a) What hypothesis would you like to test with these data?
(b) Use Pearson€™s chi-square to test your hypothesis. What would you conclude?
(c) Finally, what if you combined the Never and Fairly Often categories and the Very Often and Almost Always categories? Would the results be clearer, and under what conditions might this make sense?

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Wife's Rating Fairly Often Almost Very Often Husband's Rating Never Fairly Ofter Very Often Almost Always Total Total 19 20 19 Never Always 12 28 18 91