A university vice president for academic affairs randomly selects ...

[jake]

A university vice president for academic affairs randomly selects 15 tenured faculty from the College of Education and 15 tenured faculty from the College of Business. Each faculty member is then asked to rate his or her job satisfaction on a scale of 1(very dissatisfied) to 10(very satisfied). Would this be an example of independent samples or dependent samples? Explain.

Question 2

Each of 25 consumers is provided with a package containing two different brands of instant coffee. A week later, they are asked to rate the taste of each coffee on a scale of 1 (poor taste) to 10 (excellent taste). Is this an example of independent samples or dependent samples? Explain.

[kxciann]

Answer to Question 1

Independent; We have two different samples of tenured faculty from two different colleges.

Answer to Question 2

Dependent; In this case, we do not really have two different samples of persons, but rather before and after measurement for the same individuals.

[jake]

Wow, this really help

[dyrone]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it