Case Scenario: The norm group of engineering students within the A&M System is composed of 11 Universities with a ratio of 57% Caucasians, 21% Hispanics; 7% Asian, 3% African American, and 11% others. The ratio of your research participants at TAMUK is composed of 74.5% Hispanic/Latino, 14.9% Caucasians, 5.2% African Americans, 3.6% NonResident Alien, 0.8% Asian, 0.7% Ethnicity Unknown, 0.2% American Indian and 0.1% Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. You were conducting research examining the correlation between students’ ethnicities and GPA. (a) Discuss how the results of data analysis are biased due to different ethnic ratios between the norm group and your participants . (b) What other influencing factors you need to take into consideration when examining the correlation between students’ ethnicities and GPA (such as primary language)? (c) Respond to two peers’ posts.
