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The Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) provides independent assessments of masculinit

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Question

The Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) provides independent assessments of masculinity and femininity in terms of the respondent's self-reported possession of socially desirable, stereotypically masculine and feminine personality characteristics Alison Konrad and Claudia Harris sought to compare African American and European American men on their judgments of the desirability of 40 masculine, feminine, or androgynous traits. Suppose that the following are the scores from a hypothetical sample of African American men for the attribute Competitive. Calculate the mean, degrees of freedom, variance, and standard deviation for this sample M E df s- = 12.5 s - 11.58

Explanation / Answer

Solution(4)
Sample 4,1,3,5,2
So mean = (4+1+3+5+2)/5 = 15/5 =3
DF = no. of samples -1 = 5-1 = 4

Variance = ((4-3)^2 + (1-3)^2 +(3-3)^2 +(5-3)^2 +(2-3)^2)/4 = (1+4+0+4+1)/4 = 10/4 =2.5
So sample standard deviation = sqrt(2.5) = 1.5811 or 1.58

Solution(5)
Sample is 6,7,5,5,6,4
mean =(6+7+5+5+6+4)/6 = 33/6 = 5.5
DF = 6-1 = 5
Variance = ((6-5.5)^2 + (7-5.5)^2 +(5-5.5)^2 +(5-5.5)^2 +(6-5.5)^2 +(4-5.5)^2)/5 = (0.25 +2.25 + 0.25+0.25+0.25 +2.25)/5 = 5.5/5 =1.1
Standard deviation = sqrt(1.1). =1.0488 or 1.05