(is /is not) sufficient statistical evidence, at the 5% level, to indicate that female online daters overstate their height in online dating profiles.

The paper “The Truth About Lying in Online Dating Profiles” (Proceedings, Computer-Human Interactions (2007): 1-4) describes and investigation in which 40 men and 40 women with online dating profiles agreed to participate in a study. Each participant’s height (in inches) was compared to the height given in that person’s online profile. The differences between the online profile height and the actual height (profile-actual) were used to compute the values in the following table.Do female online daters overstate their height in online dating profiles? Conduct an appropriate hypothesis test and show appropriate steps.Let ?be mean height in women’s public profile and ?the mean of the actual women’s height.A. The hypothesis for this test are: ____ (enter an option: a, b or c from options below).B. Fill in the blank: This is a two sample ____ (paired / independent ) t-test.C. The statistic for this test is t = ____ and the p-value is ____.(round answers to the nearest thousandth. Do not enter the 0 before the decimal point. That is, if your number is -0.3478, then you enter -.348.)D. Fill in the blank: There ____ (is /is not) sufficient statistical evidence, at the 5% level, to indicate that female online daters overstate their height in online dating profiles.

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