There are 2 questions in this assignment. Molly wants to pursue a graduate degree at New...

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There are 2 questions in this assignment.

  1. Molly wants to pursue a graduate degree at New University butis unsure whether to specialize in law or medicine. To help herdecide, she takes both the MCAT and LSAT exams.

LSAT: Molly's score = 120; Students at New University:M = 150, SD = 15

MCAT: Molly's score = 52; Students at New University: M= 40, SD = 6

Enter the data into SPSS and compute z-scores for each group ofdata.

Which graduate degree should Molly pursue?

In addition to your answer to the preceding question, copy andpaste the SPSS output showing how you calculated this score andorganize this in a Word document.

  1. Amy and Sarah are arguing about who is smarter. They are thesame major (psychology), they have identical GPAs (3.8), and attendthe same university (Temple). They’ve decided that whoever had ahigher college entrance exam is the more intelligent person.However, Amy took the ACT and Sarah took the SAT.

Amy earned a composite score of 24 on the ACT where there is apopulation mean of the ACT is 18 (? = 6).

Sarah earned a composite score of 1,000 on the SAT where thereis a population mean for the SAT is 906 (? =100).  

Compute the z-scores for Amy and Sarah using SPSS. According totheir agreement, who is more intelligent?

In addition to your answer to the preceding question, copy andpaste the SPSS output showing how you calculated this score andorganize this in a Word document.

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Solution1 She should specialise in medicine because her MCATscore is relatively higher than her LSAT scoreLSAT Mollys score 120 Students at New University M 150SD 15x 120By    See Answer
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