An Experiment Was Conducted to Compare the Effect of Three

Essay

An experiment was conducted to compare the effect of three types of daily schedules on the employees' work performance. The schedules all contained the same amount of tasks, but the tasks were listed in different orders in each schedule. The day of the week was used as the blocking variable. The mean scores on the dependent variable, the percentage of tasks completed, are listed here for each cell.

$\begin{array}{c}\text { Weekday }\\\hline\begin{array}{cccccc}\text { Type of }\\\text { schedule } & \text { Monday } & \text { Tuesday } & \text { Wednesday } & \text { Thursday } & \text { Friday } \\\hline 1 & 70 & 89 & 74 & 85 & 75 \\2 & 74 & 94 & 81 & 90 & 80 \\3 & 80 & 98 & 85 & 96 & 84\end{array}\end{array}$
Use these cell means to graph the interaction between type of schedule and the day of the week.
a. Is there an interaction between type of schedule and the day of the week?
b. What kind of recommendation would you make to the manager?