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In the General Social Survey, respondents were asked "Would you approve of an adult male punching a stranger if the stranger was drunk and bumped into the man and his wife on the street?" A two-way table summarizing the results for 1006 respondents, by gender, is shown below:
-The chi-square test statistic = 0.002. What is the p-value or p-value range?

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 In the General Social Survey, respondents were asked "Would you approve of an adult male punching a stranger if the stranger was drunk and bumped into the man and his wife on the street?" A two-way table summarizing the results for 1006 respondents, by gender, is shown below: 
-The chi-square test statistic = 0.002. What is the p-value or p-value range?
A) p-value = 0.002 
B) p-value < 0.001 
C) p-value > 0.50 
D) None of the above

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The chi-square test statistic itself does not directly equal the p-value. A very small chi-square value (like 0.002) suggests that the observed data fits the expected data very well, leading to a high p-value (p-value > 0.50), indicating a lack of evidence against the null hypothesis.

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