Questions from Statistics Principles


Q: Do people walk faster in the airport when they are departing (

Do people walk faster in the airport when they are departing (getting on a plane) or when they are arriving (getting off a plane)? Researcher Seth B. Young measured the walking speed of travelers in S...

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Q: Do business travelers walk at a different pace than leisure travelers?

Do business travelers walk at a different pace than leisure travelers? Researcher Seth B. Young measured the walking speed of business and leisure travelers in San Francisco International Airport and...

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Q: Two Dutch researchers conducted a study in which two groups of students

Two Dutch researchers conducted a study in which two groups of students were asked to answer 42 questions from Trivial Pursuit. The students in group 1 were asked to spend 5 minutes thinking about wha...

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Q: Researchers Brian Wansink and Junyong Kim randomly gave 157 moviegoers a free

Researchers Brian Wansink and Junyong Kim randomly gave 157 moviegoers a free medium (120 grams) or large (250 gram) bucket of popcorn before entering a movie. After the show, the researchers measured...

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Q: Ramp metering is a traffic engineering idea that requires cars entering a

Ramp metering is a traffic engineering idea that requires cars entering a freeway to stop for a certain period of time before joining the traffic flow. The theory is that ramp metering controls the nu...

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Q: Researchers wanted to determine whether the reaction time (in seconds)

Researchers wanted to determine whether the reaction time (in seconds) of males differed from that of females to a go/no go stimulus. The researchers randomly selected 20 females and 15 males to parti...

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Q: Researchers wanted to determine if carpeted rooms contained more bacteria than uncarpeted

Researchers wanted to determine if carpeted rooms contained more bacteria than uncarpeted rooms. To determine the amount of bacteria in a room, researchers pumped the air from the room over a Petri di...

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Q: Student ID number

Student ID number

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Q: According to Martin Boon of ICM Limited, a polling firm in

According to Martin Boon of ICM Limited, a polling firm in Britain, in 1995 it took 3000 to 4000 phone calls to obtain a sample of size 2000. Today, it takes over 30,000 calls. To reduce costs, more p...

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Q: Researchers wanted to know whether there was a difference in comprehension among

Researchers wanted to know whether there was a difference in comprehension among students learning a computer program based on the style of the text. They randomly divided 36 students of similar educa...

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