In which of the following situations would you use a t test for dependent means?
A) To compare the honesty scale scores of politicians to the honesty scores of students.
B) To compare the level of reading comprehension of students at the beginning of a speed-reading class to their level of reading comprehension at the end of the class.
C) To find the relationship between liking coffee and a tendency to be a “night person” in a group of students.
D) To compare the scores on a tolerance-of-diversity measure of two sororities.
Answer: B
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a. food and beverage companies. b. media companies. c. airlines, utilities, and insurance companies. d. government-sponsored companies.
The 95% confidence interval:
A) will be narrower than the 99% confidence interval B) will be wider than the 99% confidence interval C) will have the same upper limit as the 99% confidence interval but a different lower limit D) will have the same lower limit as the 99% confidence interval but a different upper limit
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The conditional mean of Y for any value of X is found by
a. adding the Y scores for the specific value of X and dividing by N b. adding all the Y scores and dividing by X c. subtracting the mean of Y from the overall mean of X d. any of the above