Exploration of how technology affects gambling behavior and addiction.
Benjamin Fisher
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Does Technology Influence Gambling?As a counselor in the field of addiction, you are interested in researching if onlinegambling is becoming more prevalent. You decide to conduct research to compareonline gambling to gambling in public places suchas casinos. You hypothesize thatonline gambling is more prevalent among those who are under the age 30,leading tomore online gambling addictions in those individuals who are under 30. To test yourhypothesis, you use a random sample of40individuals who report attending counselingbecause of a gambling addiction. The ages of the individuals and initial mode ofgambling was recorded. The ages for those who gamble onlineand in public are shownin the table.On the basis of the data provided, can you conclude that online gambling ismore prevalent among individuals who are under the age of 30at a level of significanceof 0.05?Why or why not?(Show all seven steps of the appropriate hypothesis test.)OnlineGamblingPublicGambling2136364647296259453342543642634939454450214232502123203447356123281820622762184060