document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=336029>Question 336029</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> . A psychologist interested in political behavior measured the square footage of the<BR>\n" );
document.write( "desks in the official office of four U.S. governors and of four chief executive officers<BR>\n" );
document.write( "(CEOs) of major U.S. corporations. The figures for the governors were 44, 36,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "52, and 40 square feet. The figures for the CEOs were 32, 60, 48, and 36 square<BR>\n" );
document.write( "feet. (a) Figure the means and standard deviations for the governors and for the<BR>\n" );
document.write( "CEOs. (b) Explain, to a person who has never had a course in statistics, what you<BR>\n" );
document.write( "have done. (c) Note the ways in which the means and standard deviations differ,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "and speculate on the possible meaning of these differences, presuming that they<BR>\n" );
document.write( "are representative of U.S. governors and large corporations’ CEOs in general\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Can someone please help me? I have been stuck on this for days.......<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #241027 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=stanbon><B>stanbon(75887)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=stanbon><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/nopicture.jpg><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=241027\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> A psychologist interested in political behavior measured the square footage of the desks in the official office of four U.S. governors and of four chief executive officers (CEOs) of major U.S. corporations. <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The figures for the governors were 44, 36, 52, and 40 square feet.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Gov's mean = 43 ; std = 6.83 <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The figures for the CEOs were 32, 60, 48, and 36 square feet.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "CEO's mean = 44 ; std = 12.65 <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "(a) Figure the means and standard deviations for the governors and for the<BR>\n" );
document.write( "CEOs.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "done above<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "(b) Explain, to a person who has never had a course in statistics, what you<BR>\n" );
document.write( "have done.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Found the average for each and determined a measure of the spread of the<BR>\n" );
document.write( "data. The spread for CEO's is twice the spread for the Govs.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "(c) Note the ways in which the means and standard deviations differ,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "and speculate on the possible meaning of these differences, presuming that they<BR>\n" );
document.write( "are representative of U.S. governors and large corporations’ CEOs in general <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I'll let you speculate.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "This is an example of how statistics can be used and abused.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Cheers,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Stan H. </SPAN>\n" );
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