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28 Japanese students chose A, showing your answer to your friend at mid-term exams, and 5 Japanese students chose B, not shwoing your answer to your friend. The chi-square=16.03 indicates that Japanese students feel quite obligated to their friends and tend to even violate the exam rules to take care of their friends. 16.03 is much larger than 6.635. (p=0.01 level)
On the other hand, 21 Australian students chose A and 36 australian students chose B. The chi-square=3.9 of the two numbers indicates that Australians might tend not to show their answers to their friends at mid-term exams. However, the figure=3.9 is slightly larger than 3.841. (p=0.05 level) It means that you cannot really tell which Australian students would choose and that they would have a hard time deciding one from the other.
Comparing the two groups, the chi-square=19.42 indicates that the two groups have the culturally different criteria for decision-making. The Japanese group would feel quite obligated to help their friends, even violating some rules like mid-term exam rules, whereas the Australian group would tend to have a hard time deciding or even suffer from choosing one from the other, the dilemma between the two factors. One is that they want to keep the exam rules, and the other is that they want to help their friends. The figure=19.42 is much larger than 6.635 (p=0.01 level).
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