Promotion and Age Listed below are ages of applicants who were unsuccessful in winning promotion and ages of applicants who were successful in winning promotion (based on data from “Debating the Use of Statistical Evidence in Allegations of Age Discrimination” by Barry and Boland, American Statistician, Vol. 58, No. 2). Construct 99% confidence interval estimates of the standard deviations of the two populations from which the samples were obtained. Compare the results. What do you conclude?

Ages of Unsuccessful Applicants: 34 37 37 38 41 42 43 44 44 45 45 45 46 48 49 53 53 54 54 55 56 57 60 Ages of Successful Applicants: 33 36 37 38 38 39 42 42 43 43 44 44 44 45 45 45 45 46 46 47 47 48 48 49 49 51 51 52 54