In the following scenario for a hypothesis test for a population? mean, decide whether the? z-test is an appropriate method for
conducting the hypothesis test. Assume that the population standard deviation is known. Preliminary data analyses reveal that the sample data contain no outliers but that the distribution of the variable under consideration is probably mildly skewed. The sample size is 70. Choose the correct answer below.
a. The z-test is not an appropriate method, because the sample size is too small to be useful.
b. The z-test is an appropriate method, because the sample contains no outliers.
c. The z-test is an appropriate method, because the sample size is sufficiently large that the skewness of the variable does not matter.
d. The Z-test is not an appropriate method, because the sample is not a large sample and the data are highly skewed.
If a selection of logo artists are asked whether they like or not the new logo, their answer will represent only the opinion of a specific group of artists of the US, and this is <u>not the objective of the beverage company</u>,who wants to know if people from the United States like their logo.
If 3,800 children age 5-15 are asked whether they like the logo or not, their opinion will only represent the opinion of some children in the US, whose age is between 5 and 15, and again, this is <u>not the objective of the beverage company</u>,who wants to know if people from the United States like their logo.
Finally, the population (which by definition includes all the elements under study, in this case, all the people in the US) will be defined by all people in the US: if the company wants to know if people from the US like their new logo, they must take into account that, the population under study is all people, and not a biased selection of it.
