We want to conduct a survey asking participants to rank a set of 10 fundamental engineering concepts. Ranking a concept 1 would mean the participant believes this concept is the most important engineering concept for an engineer to know, while a ranking of 10 would mean the concept is of least importance.

If roughly half the participants are practicing engineers and the other half are engineering instructors, we would like to know the extent to which these groups might differ in their overall rankings. That is to say, we don't just want to know how these groups differ in their ranking of each individual concept, but rather how one groups aggregated ranked list differs from the others. What would be an appropriate statistical measure for such a comparison?

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