You want to compare the performance on a learning task of a group of 20 subjects who have been given Prozac with the performance of the non-drugged population.  You know that the mean score on this learning task in the population is 7.00.  The mean number of correct responses for the drugged sample was 6.1.  Does Prozac significantly affect performance on this test?   What should you use and why?

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You want to compare the performance on a learning task of a group of 20 subjects who have been given Prozac with the performance of the non-drugged population.  You know that the mean score on this learning task in the population is 7.00.  The mean number of correct responses for the drugged sample was 6.1.  Does Prozac significantly affect performance on this test?

 

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