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Question 1

Many laws have been enacted to curb workplace discrimination. From your readings and research, what are some of the best practices for teaching employees about diversity and avoiding workplace discrimination? Explain 2 of these practices to your fellow classmates and share why you think they are the best.

Respond to this… Two best practices that can be used to curb workplace discrimination are blind application reviews/interviews as well as proper group training and role playing.  I really think that by having blind application reviews this will lead to reviewing candidates experience and necessary traits rather than their age, sex and/or religion.  Also, having mentoring and group training I think helps a lot especially when you get a good mix of different backgrounds so everyone has the opportunity, in a respectful way, voice their opinions about how they would like to be treated and what could be offsensive.

Question 2

The financial aid office of a university asks a sample of students about their employment and earnings. The report says that "for academic year earnings, a significant difference (p = 0.038) was found between the sexes, with men earning more on the average. No difference (p = 0.476) was found between the earnings of African-American and white students."

Explain both of these conclusions, for the effects of sex and of race on mean earnings, in language understandable to someone who knows no statistics.

Reference: http://www.learner.org/courses/againstallodds/pdfs/AgainstAllOdds_StudentGuide_Unit27.pdf

Respond to this… The estates of men making more than women were so high that by chance you would consider this indicates only 3.8% of the times. Then we will arrange that the design is not accidental, but there is a difference between the earnings of men and women.

  In the second there was no convincing evidence since we might have realized such proof, even if there was no change in the wages of whites and blacks

47 out of 100 times. Then we took in almost 50%  chance to see our grounds if there was no conflict. We will complete that we have no significant evidence to believe that earnings are different.

Reference

Kendall, M. G., Stuart, A., & Ord, J. K. (2010). Kendall's advanced theory of statistics. New York: Oxford University Press. http://www.learner.org/courses/againstallodds/pdfs/AgainstAllOdds_StudentGuide_Unit27.pdf