5 In a fashion competition, two judges gave marks to a large number of contestants.
The value of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, \(\mathrm { r } _ { \mathrm { s } }\), between the marks given to 7 randomly chosen contestants is \(\frac { 27 } { 28 }\).
- An excerpt from the table of critical values of \(\mathrm { r } _ { \mathrm { s } }\) is shown below.
\section*{Critical values of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient}
| 1-tail test | 5\% | 2.5\% | 1\% | 0.5\% |
| 2-tail test | 10\% | 5\% | 2\% | 1\% |
| \multirow{3}{*}{\(n\)} | 6 | 0.8286 | 0.8857 | 0.9429 | 1.0000 |
| 7 | 0.7143 | 0.7857 | 0.8929 | 0.9286 |
| 8 | 0.6429 | 0.7381 | 0.8333 | 0.8810 |
Test whether there is evidence, at the 1\% significance level, that the judges agree with each another.
The marks given by the two judges to the 7 randomly chosen contestants were as follows, where \(x\) is an integer.
| Contestant | A | B | C | D | \(E\) | \(F\) | G |
| Judge 1 | 64 | 65 | 67 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 86 |
| Judge 2 | 61 | 63 | 78 | 80 | 81 | 90 | \(x\) |
- Use the value \(\mathrm { r } _ { \mathrm { s } } = \frac { 27 } { 28 }\) to determine the range of possible values of \(x\).
- Give a reason why it might be preferable to use the product moment correlation coefficient rather than Spearman's rank correlation coefficient in this context.