6.3.2. Efforts to find a genetic explanation for why certain people are right-handed and others left-handed have been largely unsuccessful. Reliable data are difficult to find be- cause of environmental factors that also influence a child's "handedness." To avoid that complication, researchers of- ten study the analogous problem of "pawedness" in ani- mals, where both genotypes and the environment can be partially controlled. In one such experiment (30), mice were put into a cage having a feeding tube that was equally accessible from the right or the left. Each mouse was then carefully watched over a number of feedings. If it used its right paw more than half the time to activate the tube, it was defined to be “right-pawed." Observations of this sort showed that 67% of mice belonging to strain A/J are right-pawed. A similar protocol was followed on a sam- ple of thirty-five mice belonging to strain A/HeJ. Of those thirty-five, a total of eighteen were eventually classified as right-pawed. Test whether the proportion of right-pawed mice found in the A/HeJ sample was significantly differ- ent from what was known about the A/J strain. Use a two- sided alternative and let 0.05 be the probability associated with the critical region.

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6.3.2. Efforts to find a genetic explanation for why certain
people are right-handed and others left-handed have been
largely unsuccessful. Reliable data are difficult to find be-
cause of environmental factors that also influence a child's
"handedness." To avoid that complication, researchers of-
ten study the analogous problem of "pawedness" in ani-
mals, where both genotypes and the environment can be
partially controlled. In one such experiment (30), mice
were put into a cage having a feeding tube that was equally
accessible from the right or the left. Each mouse was then
Transcribed Image Text:6.3.2. Efforts to find a genetic explanation for why certain people are right-handed and others left-handed have been largely unsuccessful. Reliable data are difficult to find be- cause of environmental factors that also influence a child's "handedness." To avoid that complication, researchers of- ten study the analogous problem of "pawedness" in ani- mals, where both genotypes and the environment can be partially controlled. In one such experiment (30), mice were put into a cage having a feeding tube that was equally accessible from the right or the left. Each mouse was then
carefully watched over a number of feedings. If it used its
right paw more than half the time to activate the tube,
it was defined to be “right-pawed." Observations of this
sort showed that 67% of mice belonging to strain A/J are
right-pawed. A similar protocol was followed on a sam-
ple of thirty-five mice belonging to strain A/HeJ. Of those
thirty-five, a total of eighteen were eventually classified as
right-pawed. Test whether the proportion of right-pawed
mice found in the A/HeJ sample was significantly differ-
ent from what was known about the A/J strain. Use a two-
sided alternative and let 0.05 be the probability associated
with the critical region.
Transcribed Image Text:carefully watched over a number of feedings. If it used its right paw more than half the time to activate the tube, it was defined to be “right-pawed." Observations of this sort showed that 67% of mice belonging to strain A/J are right-pawed. A similar protocol was followed on a sam- ple of thirty-five mice belonging to strain A/HeJ. Of those thirty-five, a total of eighteen were eventually classified as right-pawed. Test whether the proportion of right-pawed mice found in the A/HeJ sample was significantly differ- ent from what was known about the A/J strain. Use a two- sided alternative and let 0.05 be the probability associated with the critical region.
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