Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
8th Edition
ISBN: 9781133956570
Author: Frederick J Gravetter, Larry B. Wallnau
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 2, Problem 15P
Gaucher, Friesen, and Kay (2011) found that words they identified as “masculine themed” (such tut competitive, independent, analyze, strong) are commonly used in job recruitment materials, especially for job advertisements in male-dominated areas. In a similar study, a researcher counted the number of masculine-themed words in job advertisement for job areas, and obtained the following data.
Area | Number of Masculine Words |
Plumber | 14 |
Electrician | 12 |
Security guard | 17 |
Bookkeeper | 9 |
Nurse | 6 |
Early-childhood educator | 7 |
Determine what kind of graph would be appropriate for showing this distribution and sketch the frequency distribution graph.
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