Will improving customer service result in higher stock prices for the companies providing the better service? “When a company’s satisfaction score has improved over the prior year’s results and is above the national average (currently 76.2), studies show its shares have a good chance of outperforming the broad stock market in the long run”. The following satisfaction scores of three companies for the 4th quarters of 2018 and 2019 were obtained from the American Customer Satisfaction Index. Assume that the scores are based on a poll of 70 customers from each company. Because the polling has been done for several years, the standard deviation can be assumed to equal 8 points in each case. Let 2018 be population 1.

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  1. Will improving customer service result in higher stock prices for the companies providing the better service? “When a company’s satisfaction score has improved over the prior year’s results and is above the national average (currently 76.2), studies show its shares have a good chance of outperforming the broad stock market in the long run”. The following satisfaction scores of three companies for the 4th quarters of 2018 and 2019 were obtained from the American Customer Satisfaction Index. Assume that the scores are based on a poll of 70 customers from each company. Because the polling has been done for several years, the standard deviation can be assumed to equal 8 points in each case. Let 2018 be population 1.

 

 

Company

2018 Score

2019 Score

Rite Aid

74

77

Expedia

76

78

J.C. Penney

78

79

 

2d. When conducting a hypothesis test with the values given for the standard deviation, sample size, and α, how large must the increase from 2018 to 2019 be for it to be statistically significant?

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