Are People Equally Likely to Be Born on Any Day

Short Answer

Are people equally likely to be born on any day of the seven days of the week? Or are some days more likely to be a person's birthday than other days? To investigate this question, days of birth were recorded for the 147 "noted writers of the present" listed in The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000. The counts for the seven days of the week are given in the following table.
-Use the Goodness of Fit applet to conduct a simulation-based chi-square goodness-of-fit test using the MAD (mean absolute difference) statistic, and report the statistic and the p-value. Use at least 1000 shuffles.
MAD statistic =
p-value =