Causality and Hypothesis Exercises As a result of numerous random traffic stops

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Causality and Hypothesis Exercises

  As a result of numerous random traffic stops conducted by sheriff deputies, Sheriff Mack Wright has found that close to half of the county’s residents stopped are operating motor vehicles without current inspection stickers. Sheriff Wright decides to launch an aggressive public relations campaign threatening to crack down. Identify the management problem (i.e. dependent variable) and identify the independent variable. Next, offer a hypothesis of how the independent variable might impact the management problem (i.e., dependent variable).

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The dependent variable is "residents stopped"

The independent variable is "motor vehicles without current inspection stickers"

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The hypothesis can be framed as follows:

Null hypothesis: The traffic stops is independent of the fact whether the people are operating motor vehicles with or without current inspection stickers.

Alternate hypothesis: More the people operating motor vehicles without current inspection stickers, more are the chances of their being stpped by the traffics.

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