Chapter 7.4, Problem 7.38ACI

Unethical corporate conduct. Refer to the Behavioral Research in Accounting (July 2015) study of unethical corporate conduct, Exercise 6.15 (p. 316). Recall that each in a sample of 86 accounting graduate students was asked to perform an unethical task (e.g., to bribe a customer), and each subject’s intention to comply with the unethical request score was measured. [Scores ranged from (intention to resist the unethical request) to 2.5 (intention to comply with the unethical request)). Summary statistics on the 86 scores follow: $\bar{x}=2.42$, s = 2.84.,. One researcher, of the opinion that subjects will tend to perform the unethical task, believes the population mean intention score will exceed 2. Do the data support this belief? Test using α = .01.