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Mixed gender decision-making groups. In business, a group of executives is often assigned to make key decisions. The American Journal of Political Science (April 2014) published a study on a woman’s impact on mixed-gender deliberating groups. The researchers randomly assigned subjects to one of several 5-member decision making groups. The groups’ gender composition varied as follows: 0 females. 1 female, 2 females, 3 females, 4 females, or 5 females. Each group was then randomly assigned to utilize one of two types of decision rules: unanimous or majority rule. Ten groups were created for each of the 6 × 2 = 12 combinations of gender composition and decision rule. One variable of interest, measured for each group, was the number of words spoken by women on a certain topic per 1,000 total words spoken during the deliberations.
- a. Why is this experiment considered a designed study?
- b. Identify the experimental unit and dependent variable in this study.
- c. Identify the factors for this study. Give the levels of each factor.
- d. How many treatments are in this study? List them.
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