Exercise 1.5 Employees at Acme Industries, consisting of four separate buildings, are chronically late. An executive is considering implementing a “get out of Friday free” lottery; each day an employee is on time, he or she gets one token entered into the weekly lottery.

1. State the research question.

2. Identify the control and experimental group(s).

3. Explain how you would randomly assign participants to groups.

4. State the hypotheses (H0 and H1).

5. Discuss the criteria for accepting or rejecting the hypotheses.