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Lesson 10.1: Day 1: ls Yawning Contagious?
‘Mythbusters investigated this question. Here's a brief recap. Each subject was placed in a
booth for an extended period of time and monitored by hidden camera. 34 subjects were
given a "yawn seed” by one of the experimenters: that is, the experimenter yawned in the
Subject’ presence before leaving the room, The remaining 16 subjects were glen no yawn
seed.
1. Draw an outline of Mythbuster's experiment.
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2. Here are the Mythbusters results
Subject Yawned?
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No 4 12 16
Total 14 36 50
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'n this Activity, your class will investigate whether the results of the experiment are
Statistically significant OR if they could have occurred purely by chance due to random
assignment.
4. What is the null hypothesis? .
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The 50 people in the experiment are represented by the cards. A person is either a yawner
oF a non-yawner, no matter which treatment they are randomly assigned.
5. Shuffle the 50 cards and put them into two piles, one group of 34 that gets the yawn
‘seed and one group of 16 that does not get the yawn seed, Record the proportion of
People who yawned in each group. You will do this three times.
Proportion who yawned Proportion who yawned Difference in
Trial in yawn seed group, », no yawn seed group, p, proportions, ,
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29% - 25% = 4% (what Mythbusters got in their experiment)?
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Lesson 10.1 Day 1: Sampling Distribution for a Difference in Proportions
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crackers and Bag 2 has(35% red crackers. Each bag,contains more than 1000°crackers.
Using a E ae er cup, your Teacher takes an SRS oC Srackers from Bag 1 and a separate
SRS of 40 drackers from Bag 2. Let pi; — p; be thejdifference in the sample proportions of
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(c) Calculate and interpret the standard deviation of the sampling distribution.
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