Can you compare boys and girls on the item ‘school is boring’ using the T-test? Explain.
What will be an ideal response?
The T-test works by comparing the means between two groups. Means are only relevant for continuous variables. ‘School is boring’ is an ordinal variable, so we can’t use the Ttest.
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