An industrial-organizational psychologist believes that implementing a 2-hour lunch break at US companies will have an effect on employee productivity. On a productivity scale from 1 to 15, the average productivity score for all companies in the US is 8 (u = 8.00, ỡ = 4.00). The IO psychologist randomly samples 5 companies and has the companies implement a 2-hour lunch break for 1 month. At the end of the month, the lO psychologist measures the productivity scores for the five companies and obtains the following scores: 9, 14, 10, 12, 15 Using the appropriate hypothesis test and the six steps of hypothesis testing, determine what the 10 psychologist should conclude about the effect of a 2-hour lunch break on employee productivity. 1. What is the appropriate test to use ? 2. List the test's assumptions .You do NOT have to test the assumptions. 3. What are the null and alternative hypotheses ? 4. Construct a sampling distribution of means representing the null hypothesis. Specify the sampling distribution's mean and standard error . 5. Using a two-tailed alpha of .05 (a = 05), determine the critical values 6. Calculate the test statistic 7. State whether you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis 8. Use an online calculator to calculate the exact p-value 9. Calculate and report the effect size 10. Based on the results of your analysis, does a 2-hour lunch break increase, decrease, or have no effect on productivity ?

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An industrial-organizational psychologist believes that implementing a 2-hour lunch break at US companies will have an effect on employee productivity. On a productivity scale from 1 to 15, the average productivity score for all companies in the US is 8 (u = 8.00, ỡ = 4.00). The IO psychologist randomly samples 5 companies and has the companies implement a 2-hour lunch break for 1 month. At the end of the month, the lO psychologist measures the productivity scores for the five companies and obtains the following scores: 9, 14, 10, 12, 15 Using the appropriate hypothesis test and the six steps of hypothesis testing, determine what the 10 psychologist should conclude about the effect of a 2-hour lunch break on employee productivity. 1. What is the appropriate test to use ? 2. List the test's assumptions .You do NOT have to test the assumptions. 3. What are the null and alternative hypotheses ? 4. Construct a sampling distribution of means representing the null hypothesis. Specify the sampling distribution's mean and standard error . 5. Using a two-tailed alpha of .05 (a = 05), determine the critical values 6. Calculate the test statistic 7. State whether you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis 8. Use an online calculator to calculate the exact p-value 9. Calculate and report the effect size 10. Based on the results of your analysis, does a 2-hour lunch break increase, decrease, or have no effect on productivity ?

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