What do americans think about preferential hiring of women? has there been a change in the past decade? in 2000(group 1) and 2010(group 2), the general social survey asked participants if they would favor or oppose preferential hiring of women. in 2000, out of 849 respondents, 271 said yes. in 2010, out of 696 respondents, 225 said yes. the 95% confidence interval is (-0.0509, 0.04273). for the alternative hypothesis, ha: p1-p2 does not equal zero, what can we say about the p-value?