State whether the effect is significant:yes or no Study #1 A researcher is inter

Question

State whether the effect is significant:yes or no Study #1 A researcher is interested in the effects of gender and intelligence on conversational style. Half of the participants were male and half were female. Within each gender, half had high IQ scores and half had low IQ scores. The dependent variable was the number of times the participant interrupted a confederate during a 10-minute conversation. These are the findings: Gender Low IQ High IQ Male 8 Female 5 8 Study #2 A researcher was interested in the relation of gender and assertiveness to perceived conventionality Participants in an experiment watched videotapes of actors interacting with a job supervisor, then rated the actor's conventionality on a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 indicates very conventional and 1 indicates very unconventional. The independent variables in the study were (a) gender of the actor and (b) behavior toward the supervisor (assertive or submissive). Here are the results AssertiveSubmissive Male Actor 7.5 Female Actor 6.0 6.0 7.5

Explanation / Answer

Study 1 :

Effect of Intelligence : The first study says that IQ(Intelligence) has no effect on the conversation style with respect to a particular Gender.

Effect of Gender : When you consider both genders, Conversation style of female is better than male.

Study 2 :

Effect of Gender : Male actors are more assertive and less submissive. Where as Female actors are more submissive and less assertive.

Effect of behaviour : People who are more assertive are males. People who are more submissive are females.

Related Questions

Navigate

• Browse (All)
• Browse S
• Subjects

---

---

Integrity-first tutoring: explanations and feedback only — we do not complete graded work. Learn more.