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A researcher would like to investigate whether or not there is a difference in IQ between Psychology and History majors. She gathers 16 students (8 whose major is Psychology, and 8 whose major is history) and has them all take an IQ test to test this hypothesis using an (alpha level of .01). Below are the data: Psych History 120 95 114 92 100 145 121 101 124 100 102 98 110 97 123 120 What is (are) the critical value(s)? Obtained Statistic? Use SPSS software to perform same analysis and confirm the results please.

          A researcher would like to investigate whether or not there is a difference in IQ between Psychology and History majors. She gathers 16 students (8 whose major is Psychology, and 8 whose major is history) and has them all take an IQ test to test this hypothesis using an (alpha level of .01). Below are the data:
Psych
History
120
95
114
92
100
145
121
101
124
100
102
98
110
97
123
120
 What is (are) the critical value(s)?
 Obtained  Statistic?
Use SPSS software to perform same analysis and confirm the results please.
        
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A researcher would like to investigate whether or not there is a difference in IQ between Psychology and History majors. She gathers 16 students (8 whose major is Psychology, and 8 whose major is history) and has them all take an IQ test to test this hypothesis using an (alpha level of .01). Below are the data: Psych History 120 95 114 92 100 145 121 101 124 100 102 98 110 97 123 120 What is (are) the critical value(s)? Obtained Statistic? Use SPSS software to perform same analysis and confirm the results please.
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00:01 Once again, welcome to a new problem.
00:06 This time we're dealing with hypothesis testing.
00:10 We're dealing with hypothesis testing.
00:15 And of course, when it comes to hypothesis testing, we could always think about an independent samples t -test.
00:27 So we can think about independent samples t -test.
00:31 And whenever you see an independent samples t test, you're assuming two independent samples, and you want to compare the differences between these two samples.
00:44 The test statistic for the independent samples t test is the same as t equals to x by 1 minus x by 2, mu 1 minus mu 2.
00:59 And this is the hypothesized population mean difference.
01:12 So the hypothesized population mean difference.
01:15 And it's hypothesized that the difference is going to be zero.
01:19 And then you divide by the standard error.
01:23 Since the variances of the two groups assume not to be equal, then the standard error will have this format.
01:34 So this is the standard error for an equal variances.
01:45 So the standard error for an equal variances.
01:50 We're looking at this problem, we're looking at a new problem and in this particular problem, we have specific requirements.
01:58 Think about the iq for history versus psych majors and we select 16 students, psych students, we have eight psych students and eight history students.
02:17 And the researcher is interested in the investigation of the difference in iq scores between the two groups of students.
02:26 So we want to test the hypothesis at alpha equals 2.
02:31 There are certain specific requirements that we want to run so we want to determine if there's a difference in iq scores between psych and history majors so in part a they're asking to determine the appropriate test so we're going to say the most appropriate test the most appropriate test, the most appropriate test is the independent samples t test.
03:14 So that's their most appropriate test for this particular problem, the independent samples t test.
03:20 The next requirement is that we want to get the now and alternative hypothesis for this problem.
03:29 So the now hypothesis, we are hypothesizing that the two populations of history and psych majors have similar or the same iq scores.
03:39 And then the alternative hypothesis, we're hypothesizing that there's a difference in the iq scores between these two tests.
03:49 So it's a two -tail test.
03:51 We want to get the critical values for this test.
03:54 It's a two -tail test, meaning that that the critical values on both sides, this is positive t alpha over 2 and negative t alpha over 2.
04:07 Remember the degrees of freedom...
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