SSHA scores Here are the scores on the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes (SSHA) for 18 first-year college women:154 109 137 1
15 152 140 154 178 101 103 126 126 137 165 165 129 200 148and for 20 first-year college men:108 140 114 91 180 115 126 92 169 146 109 132 75 88113 151 70 115 187 104Do these data support the belief that women have better study habits and attitudes toward learning than men? (Note that high scores indicate good study hab its and attitudes toward learning.) Follow the four-step process.
For knowing who has better study habits and attitudes toward learning we have to find the mean of both the women and men data.
The first step is that we only take first 18 values of both women(X) and men(Y) data, to make them of same length
Mean is used to measure the central tendency of data which represents the whole data in the best way. It can be found as the ratio of the sum of all the observations to the total number of observations.
Calculating all values:
= 141.0556
= 121.25
Thus, women has better study habit than men. Since Mean of X is larger than Mean of Y.