- Question 7 2 Points Save Answer A Researcher Conducted An Experiment To Determine The Effect Of A Convicted Criminal S R 1 (273.79 KiB) Viewed 35 times
Question 7 2 points Save Answer A researcher conducted an experiment to determine the effect of a convicted criminal's race on potential juror's judgments of appropriate sentence length. In a mock jury experiment, 20 white registered voters were presented with information about a hypothetical case of assault with attempt to commit murder. Details about the nature of the offense, the victim, and the offender were presented in a manner like a criminal trial, and a judge handed down a guilty verdict. All of the information presented to "jurors" was identical except that half of the jurors were told the offender was white, and the other half were told the offender was black. The 20 experimental subjects in the role of jurors were asked to indicate what they believed would be the appropriate prison sentence (in years). The following results were obtained. Which statistical procedure is most appropriate to determine if there is a statistically significant difference between these groups of jurors in terms of appropriate sentence length? Prison Sentence Length - for White Offenders (in years) Prison Sentence Length-for.. Black Offenders (in years 7 10 9 Mann-Whitney 13 Tast 14 12 25 5 12 18 3 12 19 He Che Square Test 17 20 16 15 13 25 16