The accessibility that business professionals have to information technology creates the potential for misuse of this technology. Business professionals were asked to give their perceived importance of two ethical issues. Scenario 1 says that a programmer uses company equipment for personal use. Scenario 2 says that an employee uses proprietary software without paying the fee.
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Importance of the Issue
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Scenario 1
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Scenario 2
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Very Important
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0.16
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0.61
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Undecided
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0.18
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0.21
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Not Very Important
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0.66
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0.18
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a) Code "Very Important" as having the value 1, "Undecided" as having the value 2, and "Not Very Important" as having the value 3. Find the mean and standard deviation for Scenario 1.
b) Repeat part a) for Scenario 2.
c) Compare and interpret the statistics found in parts a) and b)