WJEC Further Unit 5 2022 June — Question 3

Exam BoardWJEC
ModuleFurther Unit 5 (Further Unit 5)
Year2022
SessionJune
TopicWilcoxon tests

3. A statistics teacher wants to investigate whether students from the north of a county and students from the south of the same county feel similarly stressed about examinations. The teacher carries out a psychometric test on 10 randomly selected students to give a score between 0 (low stress) and 100 (high stress) to measure their stress levels before a set of examinations. The results are shown in the table below.
StudentAreaStress Level
HeleddNorth67
MairNorth55
HywelSouth26
GwynSouth70
LiamSouth36
MarcinSouth57
GosiaSouth32
KestutasNorth64
EricaNorth60
TomosNorth22
  1. State one reason why a Mann-Whitney test is appropriate.
  2. Conduct a Mann-Whitney test at a significance level as close to \(5 \%\) as possible. State your conclusion clearly.
  3. How could this investigation be improved?