In the General Social Survey respondents were asked what the

In the General Social Survey, respondents were asked what they thought was most important to get ahead: hard work, lucky breaks, or both. Minitab output for 1026 respondents, by gender, is shown below:

Expected counts are printed below observed counts

                   Male Female    Total

    Hard work       284     393      677

                 292.31 384.69

    Lucky breaks     84     121      205

                  88.51 116.49

    Both             75      69      144

                  62.18 81.82

    Total           443     583     1026

Chi-Sq = 0.236 + 0.180 + 0.230 + 0.175 + 2.645 + 2.010 = 5.476

P-Value = 0.065

1. State the research hypothesis.

A) There is a relationship between gender and opinion on what is important to get ahead in the sample.

B) There is no relationship between gender and opinion on what is important to get ahead in the sample.

C) There is a relationship between gender and opinion on what is important to get ahead in the population.

D) There is no relationship between gender and opinion on what is important to get ahead in the population

There answer is C according to the answer sheet, but I was wondering why it was C?

Solution

The answer depends on level of significance alpha. If alpha had been 10% then answer C is right because pvlaue is less than 10%.. Based on sample we take decision about teh population.

Hence answer C could be correct