(h) From the company' s point of View. If the company does not discriminate on the basis of age, would you expect to nd association in this table? Method [c] From either point of View. Would it be more useful to nd the percentages within the columns orthe percentages within the rows? (d) What statistic would you choose to represent the presence or absence of evidence of discrimination? Mechanics (e)I Are age and employment status associated? Compute the appropriate summaryr statistic anti interpret its value. Message ( Summarize what you nd in your analysis of the table. [g] How would the presence of a lurking factor compromise the use of data such as these in a legal case? Chapter 5 #55 4M ANALYTICS: Discrimination in Hiring Contingency tables appear frequently in legal cases, such as those that allege that a company has discriminated against a protected class. The following table gives the number of employees of different ages who were laid off when a com pany anticipated a decline in business:16 15 J. L. Gastwirth. "Statistical Evidence in Discrimination Cases,\" Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 160(199?}, 289303. Laid Off Retained Total Age