If you would like to determine whether mothers and fathers differ on their level of agreement on a five-point ordinal scale with the statement "children should be given primacy in a household," you would employ:

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The Mann-Whitney U test is a nonparametric test used to compare two groups on an ordinal or continuous outcome variable, making it the best choice to compare the level of agreement between mothers and fathers on a five-point ordinal scale. The other options are not appropriate for this type of analysis. Spearman's rank correlation and Pearson's product moment correlation are used for assessing the relationship between two continuous variables, while Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance is used to compare three or more groups on an ordinal or continuous outcome variable.

If You Would Like to Determine Whether Mothers and Fathers