Many animals, including humans, tend to avoid direct eye contact and even patterns that look like eyes. Some insects, including moths, have evolved eye-spot patterns on their wings to help ward off predators. Scaife (1976) reports a study examining how eye-spot patterns affect the behavior of birds. In the study, the birds were tested in a box with two chambers and were free to move from one chamber to another. In one chamber, two large eye-spots were painted on one wall. The other chamber had plain walls. The researcher recorded the amount of time each bird spent in the plain chamber during a 60-minute session. Suppose the study produced a mean of M = 34.5 minutes on the plain chamber with SS = 210 for a sample of n = 15 birds. (Note: If the eye spots have no effect, then the birds should spend an average of μ = 30 minutes in each chamber.) a. Is this sample sufficient to conclude that the eyespots have a significant influence on the birds’ behavior? Use a two-tailed test with α = .05. b. Compute the estimated Cohen’s d to measure the size of the treatment effect. c. Construct the 90% confidence interval to estimate the mean amount of time spen
Many animals, including humans, tend to avoid direct
eye contact and even patterns that look like eyes.
Some insects, including moths, have evolved eye-spot
patterns on their wings to help ward off predators.
Scaife (1976) reports a study examining how eye-spot
patterns affect the behavior of birds. In the study, the
birds were tested in a box with two chambers and
were free to move from one chamber to another. In
one chamber, two large eye-spots were painted on
one wall. The other chamber had plain walls. The
researcher recorded the amount of time each bird
spent in the plain chamber during a 60-minute session.
Suppose the study produced a mean of M = 34.5 minutes on the plain chamber with SS = 210 for a sample of n = 15 birds. (Note: If the eye spots have no effect,
then the birds should spend an average of μ = 30
minutes in each chamber.)
a. Is this sample sufficient to conclude that the eyespots have a significant influence on the birds’
behavior? Use a two-tailed test with α = .05.
b. Compute the estimated Cohen’s d to measure the
size of the treatment effect.
c. Construct the 90% confidence interval to estimate
the mean amount of time spen
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