Task 1

Research question:

Do the mathematicians form the department of probability and statistics at MFF differ in the use of the pronoun we from mathematicians of the same department at Oxford?

(Additional question: do they use more or less we?)

• What is the population?
• What are the samples?
• What is the variable?
  • Is it a nominal, ordinal, or scale variable?
• What will be our null hypothesis?
• What will be our alternative hypothesis?

Question for you: How would you approach this question?