Question: Researchers want to know if Hockey players or Football Players are more inclined to believe that violence is acceptable in competition sports. 10 Hockey players and 10 Football players rate how much they condone violent behavior in sports competition from 1 = not at all, to 5 = very acceptable. The researcher believes that Hockey players will condone violence more so than Football players in competition sports.

Hockey Football

3 2

3 1

5 2

5 1

5 2

2 3

3 1

3 2

4 2

5 2

a) What is the IV and scale of measurement?

b) What is the DV and scale of measurement?

c) How many levels are there of the IV and DV, if applicable?

d) What is the null hypothesis?

e) Are you making a one tailed or two tailed hypothesis?

f) What is the alternative hypothesis?

g) What statistical test would you use? (Note if this is incorrect-all else below will be assumed incorrect).

h) Calculate the appropriate statistic (Note if this is incorrect-all else below will be assumed incorrect).

i) Would you reject or retain the null hypothesis.

j) What type of error might you have made (Type I or Type 2).