SOC 390 Concept Quiz Which Test Do I Use

Question 1

1 / 1 pts

You just finished statistics class and are eager to collect and analyze your own data! You run out and collect data to try to learn whether men and women differ in how much time they spend on facebook (measured as an interval/ratio variable). You will most likely use ___ to analyze your data.

an ANOVA

a two-predictor regression

a two-sample t-test

a chi-square test

a one-sample t-test

a z-score

a correlation

a z-test

a one-predictor regression

Question 2

1 / 1 pts

You just finished statistics class and are eager to collect and analyze your own data! You run out and collect data to try to learn whether Republicans, Democrats, and Independents differ in their happiness levels (measured as an interval/ratio variable). You will most likely use ___ to analyze your data.

a two-sample t-test

a one-sample t-test

a correlation

an ANOVA

a one-predictor regression

a two-predictor regression

a chi-square test

a z-score

a z-test

Question 3

1 / 1 pts

You just finished statistics class and are eager to collect and analyze your own data! You run out and collect data to try to learn whether time spent studying predicts test scores in statistics (both measured as interval/ratio variables). You will most likely use ___ to analyze your data.

an ANOVA

a one-sample t-test

a two-predictor regression

a z-score

a z-test

a two-sample t-test

a chi-square test

a correlation

a one-predictor regression

Question 4

1 / 1 pts

You just finished statistics class and are eager to collect and analyze your own data! You want to know if the average GPA of students at ASU differs from the population of all college students. You know the average of the population but NOT the standard deviation. You will most likely use ______ to analyze your data

a two-predictor regression

an ANOVA

a z-score

a one-predictor regression

a two-sample t-test

a z-test

a one-sample t-test

a chi-square test

a correlation

Question 5

1 / 1 pts

You just finished statistics class and are eager to collect and analyze your own data! You run out and collect data to try to learn whether height is related to weight (both measured as interval/ratio variables). You do NOT think that one predicts the other, you just wonder if they are related to each other. You will most likely use ___ to analyze your data.

a chi-square test

a two-sample t-test

a two-predictor regression

a one-predictor regression

an ANOVA

a z-score

a one-sample t-test

a z-test

a correlation

Question 6

1 / 1 pts

You just finished statistics class and are eager to collect and analyze your own data! You run out and collect data on the average score on the Week 7 quiz for students in the course this semester (measured at the interval/ratio level). You want to compare it to the average score across all semesters (i.e., the population) and Dr. Visconti gives you the mean and standard deviation for the Week 7 quiz for all semesters (i.e., the population). You will most likely use ___ to analyze your data.

a two-predictor regression

a one-predictor regression

a one-sample t-test

a z-score

a two-sample t-test

a chi-square test

an ANOVA

a z-test

a correlation

Question 7

1 / 1 pts

You just finished statistics class and are eager to collect and analyze your own data! You run out and collect data on students' living arrangements (measured as either on-campus housing or off-campus housing) and whether they are involved in extra-curricular activities (measured as either involved or not involved). You want to examine whether there is an equal distribution of students who live on- and off-campus among those are are involved or not involved in extra-curricular activities. You will most likely use ___ to analyze your data.

a one-predictor regression

a two-predictor regression

a two-sample t-test

a correlation

a one-sample t-test

an ANOVA

a z-test

a z-score

a chi-square test

Question 8

3 / 3 pts

I’ve been saying it all semester but now... I really CAN do statistics!!! (Hint: Select TRUE) Congratulations on finishing the very last quiz of the class!!!!

True

False

Quiz Score: 10 out of 10