The article “Some Parameters of the Population Biology of Spotted Flounder (Ciutharus linguatula Linnaeus, 1758) in Edremit Bay (North Aegean Sea)” (D. Türker, B. Bayhan, et al., Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Science, 2005:1013–1018) reports that a sample of 482 female spotted flounder had an average weight of 20.95 g with a standard deviation of 14.5 g, and a sample of 614 male spotted flounder had an average weight of 22.79 g with a standard deviation of 15.6 g. Can you conclude that the mean weight of male spotted flounder is greater than that of females?
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