The General Social Survey (GSS) is a large-scale survey conducted every two years on a
nationally representative sample of adult Americans. The survey asked 977 Americans how
often they felt rushed with three options to choose from: always, sometimes, and never.
Step1:
State the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses for testing whether one-third of all
adult Americans would answer "always". Be sure to state clearly what the variable in your
hypotheses is representing.
Step 2:
Check and comment.on whether the technical conditions for conducting this test are
satisfied. The sample result was that 304 of the 977 people responded "always".
Calculate the value of the test statistic.
Step 3:
Calculate the p-value.
Step 4:
Interpret what the p-value means in this context. [Hint: The p-value is the probability of what,
assuming what?]
State your test decision at the $\alpha = .05$ significance level.
Summarize your conclusions in the context of the study.
