Exercise – Hypothesis Testing

1. The Indian Broadcasting Foundation has reported that on an average there are 16 violent
scenes in a Cartoon program on Pogo. You are concerned about the amount of violence
showed on TV as it is affecting the behavior of small children. You decide to randomly
select 10 Cartoon programs broadcasted on Pogo, watched them, and count the number
of “violent scenes” in each. Here is the data you collected:
32 12 20 10 4 18 25 26 17 14
Is Indian Broadcasting Foundation is correct in reporting this much of violence in cartoon
programs on Pogo? Should such programs/ channel be banned in India?

2. A random sample of 14 cows was selected from a large dairy herd at Brookfield Farm. The
milk yield in one week was recorded, in kilograms, for each cow. The results are given
below.
169.6 142.0 103.3 111.6 123.4 143.5 155.1 101.7 170.7 113.2 130.9 146.1 169.3 155.5
Stating clearly any distributional assumptions that you make, investigate the claim that
the mean weekly milk yield for the herd is greater than 120 kg.

3. Word-processing systems are often justified on the basis of improved efficiencies for a
secretarial staff. Shown in a table below are typing rates in words per minute for 7
secretaries who previously used electronic typewriters and who are now using computer-
based word processors. Test at the 0.05 level of significance to see if there has been an
increase in the mean typing rate due to the word-processing system.
Electronic
Secretary typewriter Word processor
1 72 75
2 68 66
3 55 60
4 58 64
5 52 55
6 55 57
7 64 64
4. A researcher records the number of positive early childhood memories that can be
recalled by five individuals who grew up in military families to the number of memories
of individuals who grew up in nonmilitary families. The number of memories is normally
distributed in each group. Using 5% level of significance, what would you conclude?
Military family 18 25 17 20 23
Nonmilitary family 20 23 26 30 28

5. A sociologist is interested in whether or not race affects the likelihood that the average
person will “shoot” a potential criminal in a computer simulation. Participants are
required to make quick decisions about whether to “shoot” or not, and they are shown a
variety of images of people. Some of the images are of people with a weapon and some
of them are people holding nonviolent objects. Eight participants are randomly sampled
for the study. The psychologist records the number of errors (shooting someone holding
 a nonviolent object) the participants made based on race (African American or
Caucasian). The number of errors is normally distributed. The following data are recorded:
Participant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
African American 28 29 25 30 25 27 28 24
Caucasian 25 28 22 30 26 24 25 22
Using 5% level of significance, what would you conclude?

6. Researchers want to examine the effect of perceived control on health complaints of

geriatric patients in a long-term care facility. Thirty patients are randomly selected to
participate in the study. Half are given a plant to care for and half are given a plant but
the care is conducted by the staff. Numbers of health complaints are recorded for each
patient over the following seven days. Compute the appropriate t-test for the data
provided below.
Control over Plant No Control over Plant
23 35
12 21
6 26
15 24
18 17
5 23
21 37
18 22
34 16
10 38
23 23
14 41
19 27
23 24
8 32