Presented below are the results from an SPSS analysis of the facial composite study as if it was conducted as a within-groups design, with 26 participants creating composites both alone and when paired with another participant. Again, the researcher asks if the individually-created composites were rated significantly lower on similarity than those created when working in pairs.
Paired Samples Statistics:
Mean N Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean
Pair 1: Paired 5.00 26 1.744 .342
Alone 4.23 26 1.531 .300
Paired Samples Correlations:
Significance Correlation
One-Sided p Two-Sided p
Pair 1: Paired-Alone 26 .210 .152 .304
Paired Samples Test:
Paired Differences 95% Confidence Interval of the Difference
Mean Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean Lower Upper
Pair 1: Paired-Alone .769 2.065 .405 -.065 1.603
Significance:
One-Sided p Two-Sided p
.035 .069 1.899
a) Appropriate test?
b) H0
c) H1
d) Critical values? (you'll need to look this up in the t-table: Table E.6 in the text)
e) Reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis?
f) Based on information provided in the SPSS output, provide a concluding statement which includes the APA formatted notation regarding the obtained t value (to two decimal places) and its significance (exact probability value, to three decimal places). See the Week 6 lecture presentation and the practice problems for wordings of the APA formatted concluding statement.