In a pretest, respondents were asked to express their preferences for an outdoor lifestyle (V1) using a 7-point scale (1 = not at all preferred, 7 = greatly preferred) They were also asked to indicate the importance of the following variables on a 7-point scale (1= not at all important, 7 = very important)

V2= enjoy nature, V3= relating to weather, V4= living in harmony with environment , V5= exercising regularly

V6= meeting other people

The gender of the respondent V7 was coded as 1=female and 2 for males. The location of residence V8 was coded 1=midtown/downtown, 2=suburbs, 3=countryside.

V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8

7 3 6 4 5 2 1 1

1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1

6 2 5 4 4 5 1 1

4 3 4 6 3 2 1 1

1 2 2 3 1 2 1 1

6 3 5 4 6 2 1 1

5 3 4 3 4 5 1 1

6 4 5 4 5 1 1 1

3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1

2 4 2 6 2 2 1 1

6 4 5 3 5 5 1 2

2 3 1 4 2 1 1 2

7 2 6 4 5 6 1 2

4 6 4 5 3 3 1 2

1 3 1 2 1 4 2 2

6 6 6 3 4 5 2 2

5 5 6 4 4 6 2 2

7 7 4 4 7 7 2 2

2 6 3 7 4 3 2 2

3 7 3 6 4 4 2 2

1 5 2 6 3 3 2 3

5 6 4 7 5 6 2 3

2 4 1 5 4 4 2 3

4 7 4 7 4 6 2 3

6 7 4 2 1 7 2 3

3 6 4 6 4 4 2 3

4 7 7 4 2 5 2 3

3 7 2 6 4 3 2 3

4 6 3 7 2 7 2 3

5 6 2 6 7 2 2 3

In each case formulate the null and the alternative hypotheses and conduct the appropriate statistical test.

a) Does mean preference for outdoor lifestyle exceed 3.0 ?

b) Does the mean importance of enjoying nature exceed 3.5

c) Does mean preference for outdoor lifestyle differ between man and female

d) Does the importance attached to V2 through V6 differ for man and female

e) Do the respondents attach more importance to enjoying nature than they do relating to weather

f) Do the respondents attach more importance relating to weather than when they do to meeting other people

g) Do the respondents attach more importance to living in harmony with environment than they do with exercising regularly?

h) Does the importance attached to V2 to V6 differ for males and females if these variables are treated as ordinal rather than interval scaled?

I) Do the respondents attach more importance to relating to the weather than they do to meeting other people if these variables are treated as ordinal rather than interval?