The average heights of adult males and females in the U.S. are, respectively, 5 ft. 10 in. and 5 ft. 4 in. Both distributions are approximately normal with a standard deviation of about 2.5 in.§ An investigator has selected one population by chance and has drawn from it a random sample. What do you think the odds are that he has selected the male population if 1. The sample consists of a single person whose height is 5 ft. 10 in.? 2. The sample consists of 6 persons whose average height is 5 ft. 8 in.? The odds most commonly assigned by their subjects were, in the first case, 8:1 in favor
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