Scenario 1:

A researcher is examining the effects of a treatment to stop smoking. The research question is: Is there a relationship between the smoking treatment and the number of cigarettes smoked per week? The researcher uses two randomly selected groups of 20 participants, one that receives the treatment and one that does not. The researcher is examining how many cigarettes the participants smoke per week before and after the treatment. The preliminary results show that both groups of data were normally distributed.

1. What is the n value in this study? __________

2. What type of data does this study use (nominal, ordinal, or interval)? ____________________

3. What test do you suggest the researcher use for this study? ____________

4. Explain why you selected that test. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What does this type of test examine (means, medians, frequencies, or variance)? __________________

Scenario 2:

A researcher is examining people's perceptions of mental health services provided at Baptist Hospital, Jackson Memorial, and Mount Sinai. The researcher asks 100 randomly selected participants to rank their perceptions of these services on a scale from 1-10 (one being very poor and ten being the best). The research question is: Is there a difference in perceptions of mental health services provided by Baptist, Jackson Memorial, and Mount Sinai?

6. What is the n value in this study? __________

7. What type of data does this study use (nominal, ordinal, or interval)? ____________________

8. What test do you suggest the researcher use for this study? ____________

9. Explain why you selected that test. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

10. What does this type of test examine (means, medians, frequencies, or variance)? __________________