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Lilley and Hinduja (2007) aimed to explain a result reported by other researchers in which police supervisors’ satisfaction with their performance evaluation routines was greater in communities with more highly developed community policing practices. Before developing a sophisticated model, the authors began by verifying that their survey data also showed this feature. Table 6.13 summarizes the survey respondent’s satisfaction with various aspects of their performance evaluation process, broken down by level of community policing implementation. The sample means within each group are given, with the sample standard deviation in parentheses. To the right is the F statistic for a one-way ANOVA. Lilley and Hinduja’s data are consistent with that obtained by other researchers, namely, that the mean level of satisfaction differs significantly by level of community policing. Apparently, the difference occurs at the highest level, but formal methods for confirming that are developed in Section 6.5.