One of the most common findings in criminology is that girls…
One of the most common findings in criminology is that girls commit fewer delinquent acts than boys. Suppose that the number of minor delinquent acts in the entire population of juveniles is normally distributed with mean 5.25 and a standard deviation of 12.50. You draw a random sample of 150 girls, and find that the mean number of delinquent acts is 3.35. You are testing the hypothesis that girls offend at a different rate than the general juvenile population using an alpha level of 0.05. You obtain a p-value of 0.0314 from Table A1. What conclusion do you reach?