A sample of adults was asked about their opinions of how credible TV news is compared with to print news. Each person was asked to rate his/her…

A sample of adults was asked about their opinions of how credible TV news is compared with to print news. Each person was asked to rate his/her agreement with the following statement:

“Television news is more trustworthy than corresponding news reported in the newspaper.”

Responses from the participants were as follows:

5              1              2              1              3              1              4              3              2              1
2              2              5              3              1              4              1              2              1              2

a. Construct a frequency distribution.

b. Determine the mean, median, mode, and range.

c. Write an interpretation of the mean.

d. If you wanted to compare men’s and women’s opinions on this question, what statistical test would you use? Why?