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Research has demonstrated that people tend to be attracted to others who are similar to themselves. One study demonstrated that individuals are disproportionally more likely to marry those with surnames that begin with the same letter as their own (Jones et al., 2004). The researchers began looking at marriage records and recording the surname for each groom and the maiden name of each bride. From these records it is possible to calculate the probability of randomly matching a bride and groom whose last name begin with the same letter. Suppose that this probability is only 6.5%. Next a sample of n = 200 married couples is selected and the number who shared the same last initial at the time they were married is counted. The resulted observed frequencies are as follows:

Do these data indicate that the number of couples with the same last initial is significantly different than would be expected if couples were matched randomly? Test with an alpha of .05.

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