Differences by sex and socioeconomic status in attitude toward applied statistics of 38 students who registered for the Bachelor of Education (18 men and 20 women) and whose ages ranged from 21 to 43 years (M = 28.9 yr.) were not statistically significant on a two-way analysis of variance of low, middle, and high socioeconomic status.
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