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a. Do responses from the boys and the girls have the same distribution? Use the Mann–Whitney U test and 0.05.

b. Rank the choices for the boys and girls separately of each other.

c. Do the boys’ preferences correlate to the girls’ preferences? Use Spearman’s rank correlation to test at the 0.05 level of significance.

d. Compare the results obtained in parts b and c.

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Does every generation believe that the following generation has a flawed attitude regarding the im- portant factors of life? Perhaps the media plays up these negative factors so that one perceives that a whole generation believes them. The data that fol- low are from Section 14.1, "Teenagers' Attitudes" (p. 750), which included a study by NFO Research, Inc., surveying American's adolescent population on the things teens want most from life. The One Thing Teens Want Most from Life [EX14-01] Choices All Boys Girls Happiness 28% 23% 32% Long enjoyable life 16% 18% 14% Marriage and family 9% 8% 11% Financial success 8% 11% 4% Career success 8% 9% 6% Religious satisfaction 8% 7% 7% Love 7% 6% 7% Personal success 6% 6% 5% Personal contribution to society 2% 3% 2% Friends 2% 3% 1% Health 2% 2% 2% Education 2% 1% 2%