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Question 336029: . 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. The figures for the governors were 44, 36,
52, and 40 square feet. The figures for the CEOs were 32, 60, 48, and 36 square
feet. (a) Figure the means and standard deviations for the governors and for the
CEOs. (b) Explain, to a person who has never had a course in statistics, what you
have done. (c) Note the ways in which the means and standard deviations differ,
and speculate on the possible meaning of these differences, presuming that they
are representative of U.S. governors and large corporations’ CEOs in general
Can someone please help me? I have been stuck on this for days.......

Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
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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.
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The figures for the governors were 44, 36, 52, and 40 square feet.
Gov's mean = 43 ; std = 6.83
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The figures for the CEOs were 32, 60, 48, and 36 square feet.
CEO's mean = 44 ; std = 12.65
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(a) Figure the means and standard deviations for the governors and for the
CEOs.
done above
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(b) Explain, to a person who has never had a course in statistics, what you
have done.
Found the average for each and determined a measure of the spread of the
data. The spread for CEO's is twice the spread for the Govs.
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(c) Note the ways in which the means and standard deviations differ,
and speculate on the possible meaning of these differences, presuming that they
are representative of U.S. governors and large corporations’ CEOs in general
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I'll let you speculate.
This is an example of how statistics can be used and abused.
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Cheers,
Stan H.