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Desirability Traits In a recent Harris Poll, a random sample of adult Americans (18
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Desirability Traits In a recent Harris Poll, a random sample of adult Americans (18 years and older) was asked, Given a choice of the following, which one would you most want to be? Results of the survey, by gender, are given in the contingency table. Richer Thinner Smarter Younger None of these Total Male 520 158 159 181 102 1120 Female 425 300 144 81 92 1042 Total 945 458 303 262 194 2162 Source: The Harris Poll (a) How many adult Americans were surveyed? How many males were surveyed? (b) Construct a relative frequency marginal distribution. (c) What proportion of adult Americans want to be richer? (d) Construct a conditional distribution of desired trait by gender. That is, construct a conditional distribution treating gender as the explanatory variable. (e) Draw a bar graph of the conditional distribution found in part (d). (f ) Write a couple sentences explaining any relation between desired trait and gender.
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Desirability Traits In a recent Harris Poll, a random sample of adult Americans (18 years and older) was asked, Given a choice of the following, which one would you most want to be? Results of the survey, by gender, are given in the contingency table. Richer Thinner Smarter Younger None of these Total Male 520 158 159 181 102 1120 Female 425 300 144 81 92 1042 Total 945 458 303 262 194 2162 Source: The Harris Poll (a) How many adult Americans were surveyed? How many males were surveyed? (b) Construct a relative frequency marginal distribution. (c) What proportion of adult Americans want to be richer? (d) Construct a conditional distribution of desired trait by gender. That is, construct a conditional distribution treating gender as the explanatory variable. (e) Draw a bar graph of the conditional distribution found in part (d). (f ) Write a couple sentences explaining any relation between desired trait and gender.
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The given data is:
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