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A CEO is unsure whether to allow workers to work from home, or require them to work form home, so she runs an experiment. People who participate are randomly assigned to treatment or control. In the treatment arm, people will be allowed to work from home, and in the control arm, people will not to be allowed to work from home. Participation in the experiment is voluntary. After the experiment, we have the following data.   Group Sample size Average performance score 1. Treatment (optional work from home) 324 4.5 2. Control (no optional work from home) 325 4.3 3. Did not participate in experiment 200 4.6 If we want to analyze the data by intention-to-treat, how should we use group 3?  

What does the TOT tell us?

A retail company notices a strong positive correlation between the number of loyalty program members and overall store revenue.    Identify a potential confounding factor and explain your logic.   Your answer should be no more than four sentences. 

According to the AARP (in 2024), older adults lag younger adults the most in their adoption of:

Healthy ways to approach your own aging include all the following except:

Older characters on Taiwanese television will often: 

Lauzen and Dozier’s (2005) study says that women are OVERrepresented in the movies when they are in their ____’s whereas men tend to be overrepresented in their ____’s.

Presbycusis most affects my ability to hear which kind of sound?  

Using the life table below, what is the expected TOTAL lifespan for a 9-year-old girl (i.e., how old is she likely to be when she dies)?

A construction firm is doing a project in a known flood zone.  In order to protect their interests, they take a out a flood insurance policy.  This is an example of which approach to dealing with project risk?