Question 16.23

16.23 Safety of restaurant food.

CASE 16.2 Case 16.2 (page 16-10) describes a study of the attitudes of people attending outdoor fairs about the safety of the food served at such locations. In the associated data file, you will find the responses of 303 people to several questions. The variables in this data set are (in order)

subject hfair sfair sfast srest gender

The variable “sfair” contains the responses described in the example concerning safety of food served at outdoor fairs and festivals. The variable “srest” contains responses to the same question asked about food served in restaurants. We saw that women are more concerned than men about the safety of food served at fairs. Is this also true for restaurants?

fsafety

16.23

, , . Women are systematically more concerned than men about the safety of food served at restaurants.