Define a population of your choice and randomly sample the following variables:

Variable 1: Gender or class level (freshmen, sophomore, upper classes, etc.)

Variable 2: Name “The One Thing Want Most From Life”; choose from happiness, long enjoyable life, marriage and family, financial success, career success, religious satisfaction, love, personal success, personal contribution to society, friends, health, or education

a. Rank the choices for each level of variable 1.

b. Do the responses from the levels of variable 1 have the same distribution? Use the Mann–

Whitney U test and 0.05

c. Do the levels of the responses correlate to each other? Use Spearman’s rank correlation to test at the 0.05 level of significance.

d. Write a paragraph comparing and contrasting 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%