SCENARIO 8-1
The managers of a company are worried about the morale of their employees.In order to
determine if a problem in this area exists, they decide to evaluate the attitudes of their
employees with a standardized test.They select the Fortunato test of job satisfaction,
which has a known standard deviation of 24 points.
-True or False: Referring to Scenario 8-1, this confidence interval is only valid if the scores on
the Fortunato test are normally distributed.

Question

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A confidence interval for the mean can be valid even if the data is not normally distributed, especially with a large sample size, due to the Central Limit Theorem.

SCENARIO 8-1 The Managers of a Company Are Worried About the Morale