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question 9 of 30
how does a leader’s justification of their organization’s policy affect support for the policy? this study compared a moral, pragmatic, and ambiguous justification for both public and private policies using a sample of 30 subjects. as an example of a public policy, subjects read a politician’s proposal to fund a retirement planning agency. the moral justification was the importance of retirees \to live with dignity and comfort,\ the pragmatic was \to not drain public funds,\ and the ambiguous was \to have sufficient funds.\ for a private policy, subjects read about a ceo’s plan to provide healthy meals for the employees. the moral justification was increased access to meals \should improve our employees well - being,\ the pragmatic was \to improve our employee’s productivity,\ and the ambiguous was \to improve the status - quo.\
the given figure displays the six treatments for the two - factor experiment on policy justification.
figure description: a table with factor a (policy type) having two levels: public and private. factor b (justification) having three levels: moral, pragmatic, ambiguous. the cells are group 1 (public, moral), group 2 (public, pragmatic), group 3 (public, ambiguous), group 4 (private, moral), group 5 (private, pragmatic), group 6 (private, ambiguous). a note: subjects assigned to treatment 3 read a public policy statement with an ambiguous justification.
the 30 volunteers named in the table will serve as subjects.
table of volunteers: aaron, alexander, banks, campanella, duffy, foxx, greenberg; herman, hubbell, johnson, kiner, lajoie, lemon, lombardi; mize, newhouser, ott, paige, palmer, robinson, ruffing; sisler, speaker, terry, traynor, vance, wagner, waner; williams, young
outline the design on paper and randomly assign the subjects to the six treatments, an equal number of subjects to each treatment, starting at line 133 of table b.
how many of the subjects are assigned to each treatment? give your answer as a whole number.
n =

Explanation:

Step1: Identify total subjects

There are 30 subjects (count the names: let's verify - rows: 5 rows? Wait, the table: first row 7, second 7, third 7, fourth 7, fifth 2? Wait no, let's count: Aaron, Alexander, Banks, Campanella, Duffy, Foxx, Greenberg (7); Herman, Hubbell, Johnson, Kiner, Lajoie, Lemon, Lombardi (7); Mize, Newhouser, Ott, Paige, Palmer, Robinson, Ruffing (7); Sisler, Speaker, Terry, Traynor, Vance, Wagner, Waner (7); Williams, Young (2). Wait 7*4=28 +2=30. Correct, total N=30.

Step2: Identify number of treatments

There are 6 treatments (Group 1 to Group 6, 2 policy types * 3 justifications = 6).

Step3: Calculate subjects per treatment

Divide total subjects by number of treatments: \( \frac{30}{6} = 5 \).

Answer:

5