Chapter 18, Problem 7P

7. In 2005, Fung et al. published a study reporting that patients prefer technical quality vs. interpersonal skill when electing a primary care physician. Participant were presented with report card describing pairs of hypothetical physicians and were asked to select the one that they preferred. Suppose that this study is repeated with a sample of n = 150 participants, and the result show that physicians with greater technical skill are preferred by 92 participants and physicians with greater interpersonal skills are selected by 58. Are these results sufficient to conclude that there is a significant preference for technical skill? Test with

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