A recent story in the media has claimed that women who eat breakfast every day are more likely to have boy babies than girl babies. Imagine you conducted a study to investigate this in women from two different age groups (18–30 and 31–43 years).
Looking at the output tables below, which of the following sentences best describes the results?



A. Whether or not a woman eats breakfast significantly affects the gender of her baby at any age.
B. Women who ate breakfast were significantly more likely to give birth to baby boys than girls.
C. There was a significant two-way interaction between eating breakfast and age group of the mother.
D. The model is a poor fit of the data.
Answer: A
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