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Question 10

Focus Busters!

Maintaining productivity in modern working environments can be challenging with various distractions. To investigate this, a researcher used a questionnaire to find out what single source of distraction employees find most disruptive to their focus. Below is a table displaying the data collected from 240 workers who participated in the study.

Table displaying the number of responses in each category when participants were asked to identify which one of the following distractions they find most disruptive to focus

Loud conversationsConstant email notificationsPhone ringingPeople walking pastTemperature discomfort
Remote workers' responses124815837
On-site office workers' responses522226146

Outline the meaning of p<0.05 p < 0.05\,p<0.05 if it appeared as part of the significance statement when presenting the findings from an inferential statistical test for this study.

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