17. (10pts) Gender and Humor. Sense of humor of 200 male and 200 female students was examined in a paper. The researcher

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17. (10pts) Gender and Humor. Sense of humor of 200 male and 200 female students was examined in a paper. The researchers studied measures of abstract reasoning, verbal intelligence, humor production ability, and mating success. The students' humor ability was tested based on the number of captions written for funny images. Following are the number of captions given by a few participants (this isn't the entire sample) Men 10 12 159 10 14 320 3 13 515 3 113 17 12 4 1323 9 11 3 15 24 23 14 5 27 2230 922 27 1413 19 3 4 15 30 2 21 36 120 37 26 19 1 5 19 4 15 At the 10% significance level, do the data provide sufficient evidence to conclude that, on average, males have a better sense of humor? Note: Use {male = 11.39, Smale = 4.14, &female = 9.85, Sfemale = 3.67. a. Conduct the Bartlett F-test of variances to determine whether variances are different Test statistic F= (3 decimal places) Show your work) P-value = Show your work) (4 decimal places) Conclusion based on the Bartlett test (select one): _There is evidence that the variances are different No evidence that the variances are different. b. Based on results above, which t-test of means should the researcher use to compare the two genders results? Pooled t-test non-pooled t-test cannot be determined c. Conduct the test t-test using your TI-Technology Hypothesis: Report: Test statistics _2 decimals, P-value= 4 decimals d. What can the researcher conclude regarding this comparison?