Question 11.67

games

32. Gender Differences in Computer/Video/Online Gaming. The Pew Internet and American Life Project collected data on the College Students Gaming Survey. Among the questions they asked 1720 randomly selected college students was “Which one of the following do you play the most: video games, computer games, or online games?” The results are summarized by gender in the following contingency table.

Video
games		 Computer
games		 Internet
games
Male 616 221 139
Female 198 372 174
  1. Before you perform the hypothesis test, what result might you expect? Look over the data set carefully to see whether you can detect significant differences between the levels of the variables. Then see whether your hypothesis test bears out your intuition.
  2. Test whether gender and game type are independent, using level of significance .