Using the same question as in question 1 (restated below), answer the following question: A consumer psychologist asked to test a claim by a swimming school that its instructors could teach the average seven-year-old to swim across an Olympic-sized pool in less than 2 minutes. The psychologist arranged for eight randomly selected seven-year-old children to take lessons at the school and recorded how long it took each child to swim across a pool at the end of the lessons. The times (in seconds) were 60, 65 100, 80, 70, 90, 100, and 100, which averages to 83.125 .  The known population's mean was 120 seconds.  If you ran a statistical test on this data and came up with the following results, would you say that the lessons resulted in a significant change in time taken to swim across the pool?   Cutoff t score needed = +/-1.895  t = 2.88  Is the t score given more extreme than the cutoff score in the desired direction?     Select one: a. No, it is not significant. b. Yes, it is significant.

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Using the same question as in question 1 (restated below), answer the following question:

A consumer psychologist asked to test a claim by a swimming school that its instructors could teach the average seven-year-old to swim across an Olympic-sized pool in less than 2 minutes. The psychologist arranged for eight randomly selected seven-year-old children to take lessons at the school and recorded how long it took each child to swim across a pool at the end of the lessons. The times (in seconds) were 60, 65 100, 80, 70, 90, 100, and 100, which averages to 83.125 .  The known population's mean was 120 seconds.  If you ran a statistical test on this data and came up with the following results, would you say that the lessons resulted in a significant change in time taken to swim across the pool?

 

Cutoff t score needed = +/-1.895 

= 2.88 

Is the t score given more extreme than the cutoff score in the desired direction?

 

 

Select one:
a.

No, it is not significant.

b.

Yes, it is significant.

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