WJEC Further Unit 5 2024 June — Question 6

Exam BoardWJEC
ModuleFurther Unit 5 (Further Unit 5)
Year2024
SessionJune
TopicWilcoxon tests

6. Alana is a PhD student researching language acquisition. She gives one group of randomly selected participants, Group A, 4 minutes to memorise 40 words that are similar in meaning. She gives a different, randomly selected group of participants, Group B, 4 minutes to memorise 40 words that are different in meaning. Alana believes that the students in Group B will do better than the students in Group A. The following results are the number of words recalled on testing the students from the two groups.
Group A32824161020221823212614
Group B302911253836281217
Conduct a Mann-Whitney U test at a significance level as close as possible to \(5 \%\) to test Alana's belief.