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A researcher believes that participating in extracurricular sports during childhood is associated with heightened self-esteem in adolescence.The researcher is aware that for the overall population of adolescents,scores on a validated self-esteem questionnaire have a mean of u =20.To test their hypothesis,the researcher plans to use an a=0.01,and gathers a sample of 16 adolescents who participated in extracurricular sports during childhood.They request these participants to complete the self-esteem questionnaire,yielding an average score of M=21,a sum of squares ss=135.anda standard deviation ofs=3.What type of hypothesis test should vou conduct to determine whether adolescents who participated in extracurricular sports during childhood have higher self-esteem compared to the general population?
t-test for two related samples
Ot-test for two independent samples
z-test for one sample
Ot-test for one sample