A political analyst categorized two groups of people as either having traveled to Europe or not traveled to Europe and asked the two groups to rank the importance of economic issues currently being debated by the European Union.The analyst wants to compare the rankings for the two groups.Which test should be used?
A) Wilcoxon signed-rank test
B) paired-samples t test
C) independent-samples t test
D) Mann-Whitney U test

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The Mann-Whitney U test is appropriate for comparing the rankings (ordinal data) of two independent groups, which in this case are people who have traveled to Europe and those who have not.

A Political Analyst Categorized Two Groups of People as Either