Marcus is testing to see if men and women send the same numb…
Marcus is testing to see if men and women send the same number of text messages over the course of a day. He recruits 16 men and 31 women to be in his study. He finds that men send fewer text messages (M = 75, SD = 10) than women (M = 88, SD = 8). When Marcus conducts his t test, what is the pooled variance for this study?
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Dietz and Henrich (2014) were interested in the impact of texting on student learning. A group of 99 college students were randomly assigned to text (N = 50) or not text (N = 49) during a prerecorded psychology lecture. At the end of the 20-minute lecture, students answered a 17-question quiz about the material that had just been presented. Which statistical test should the researchers use to analyze their data?
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Twenty-five college students experience the effects of alcohol on reaction time. They perform very basic timed responses in a driving simulator both before and after consuming several alcoholic beverages. The researcher collects a reaction time result for each of the 25 students before and after intoxication, for a total of 50 measures. What are the degrees of freedom for this study?
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